B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4129

HR 4129 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 877 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 210× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 877 years ago.

877 lybrightness mag 6.19B4IV

Also catalogued as HD 91272 · HIP 51425

10,175 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
210× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
877 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
210×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 4129B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.