F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4989
HR 4989 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 59.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,439 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 114837 · HIP 64583 · Gliese Gl 503A
6,439 K
temperature
4.90
apparent magnitude
3.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
3.16×
the Sun's light output
3.60
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.