B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4975

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4975B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Lam Cru →16 ly apart
HR 4988 →24 ly apart
HR 5035 →27 ly apart
HR 4848 →33 ly apart
HR 4834 →36 ly apart
Mu 2Cru →38 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.