A-type star · white star

HR 4881

HR 4881 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,923 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 218 years ago.

218 lybrightness mag 6.14A0III

Also catalogued as HD 111786 · HIP 62788

7,923 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

13.68× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

218 years

at light speed from Earth

1.37×

as hot as the Sun

13.68×

the Sun's light output

2.01

absolute magnitude

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HR 4881A-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.