A-type star · white star

HR 4880

HR 4880 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,652 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 524 years ago.

524 lybrightness mag 6.31A0IV

Also catalogued as HD 111775 · HIP 62799

9,652 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
67.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
67.17×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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HR 4880A-type
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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.