A-type star · white star

HR 4871

HR 4871 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,585 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 612 years ago.

612 lybrightness mag 6.26A0V

Also catalogued as HD 111519 · HIP 62655

9,585 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
96.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
612 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
96.03×
the Sun's light output
-0.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 4871A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.