A-type star · white star

HR 4950

HR 4950 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 392 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,026 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 392 years ago.

392 lybrightness mag 6.43F0V

Also catalogued as HD 113889 · HIP 63822

8,026 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
33.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
392 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
33.70×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

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.