B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4089
HR 4089 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,066 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 402 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 90264 · HIP 50847
12,066 K
temperature
4.97
apparent magnitude
136× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
402 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
136×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
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.