B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4056

HR 4056 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 532 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,986 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 532 years ago.

532 lybrightness mag 5.97B9V

Also catalogued as HD 89461 · HIP 50480

10,986 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
94.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
532 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
94.89×
the Sun's light output
-0.09
absolute magnitude
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HR 4056B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 403628 ly
StarHR 396831 ly
StarHR 413541 ly
StarGamma² Velstar
StarAlsephinastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.