B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4056

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4056B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4036 →28 ly apart
HR 3968 →31 ly apart
HR 4135 →41 ly apart
HR 4053 →45 ly apart
HR 4015 →54 ly apart
HR 4093 →59 ly apart

Bright stars in Vela

Gam2Vel →mag 1.8
Alsephina →mag 1.9
Suhail →mag 2.2
Markeb →mag 2.5
Mu Vel →mag 2.7
Phi Vel →mag 3.5
Psi Vel →mag 3.6
Kalausi →mag 8.2

Can you see it tonight?

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.