B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4135

HR 4135 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,442 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 121× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 544 years ago.

545 lybrightness mag 5.76B9

Also catalogued as HD 91355 · HIP 51561

13,442 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
121× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
544 years
at light speed from Earth
2.33×
as hot as the Sun
121×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.