B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4140

HR 4140 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 483 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,391 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 915× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 483 years ago.

483 lybrightness mag 3.30B4Vne

Also catalogued as HD 91465 · HIP 51576

11,391 K
temperature
3.30
apparent magnitude
915× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4Vne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
483 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
915×
the Sun's light output
-2.55
absolute magnitude
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HR 4140B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To 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.