A-type star · white star

HR 4936

HR 4936 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 630 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,487 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 630 years ago.

630 lybrightness mag 6.50A3Vn

Also catalogued as HD 113436 · HIP 63647

9,487 K

temperature

6.50

apparent magnitude

81.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

630 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

81.51×

the Sun's light output

0.07

absolute magnitude

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HR 4936A-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

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.