B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4879
HR 4879 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 466 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 466 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.