A-type star · white star

HR 4886

HR 4886 is a white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,378 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 361 years ago.

361 lybrightness mag 6.29A7V

Also catalogued as HD 111893 · HIP 62825

8,378 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

32.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

361 years

at light speed from Earth

1.45×

as hot as the Sun

32.48×

the Sun's light output

1.07

absolute magnitude

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HR 4886A-type

Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Coma Berenices

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.