B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4975

HR 4975 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 379 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,138 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 173× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 379 years ago.

379 lybrightness mag 4.58B8V

Also catalogued as HD 114529 · HIP 64425

11,138 K

temperature

4.58

apparent magnitude

173× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

379 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

173×

the Sun's light output

-0.74

absolute magnitude

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HR 4975B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.