A-type star · white star

HR 4871

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4871A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5016 →57 ly apart
HR 4620 →75 ly apart
HR 4906 →80 ly apart
HR 4652 →81 ly apart
HR 4982 →81 ly apart
HR 4880 →89 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.