F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4966

HR 4966 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Musca 137 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 137 years ago.

137 lybrightness mag 5.92F3IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 114371 · HIP 64390

6,801 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
6.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
137 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
6.62×
the Sun's light output
2.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 4966F-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 500016 ly
StarHR 504816 ly
StarHD 10348220 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.