B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4985
HR 4985 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,265 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 114772 · HIP 64515
10,265 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
47.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
47.91×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.