A-type star · white star

HR 4065

HR 4065 is a white star in the constellation Carina 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,630 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 5.66A1V

Also catalogued as HD 89715 · HIP 50520

9,630 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
30.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
30.59×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 4065A-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.