A-type star · white star

HR 4071

HR 4071 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 346 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,218 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 346 years ago.

346 lybrightness mag 6.47A4IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 89816 · HIP 50728

8,218 K

temperature

6.47

apparent magnitude

25.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

346 years

at light speed from Earth

1.42×

as hot as the Sun

25.28×

the Sun's light output

1.34

absolute magnitude

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HR 4071A-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.