B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4879

466 lybrightness mag 5.99B7/B8V

Also catalogued as HD 111774 · HIP 62786

11,539 K

temperature

5.99

apparent magnitude

71.45× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7/B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

466 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

71.45×

the Sun's light output

0.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4879B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4748 →47 ly apart
HR 4712 →60 ly apart
HR 4724 →61 ly apart
HR 4675 →68 ly apart
HR 4874 →78 ly apart
HR 5065 →81 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.