B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4196
HR 4196 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 454 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,273 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 210× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 454 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 92938 · HIP 52370
12,273 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
210× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
454 years
at light speed from Earth
2.13×
as hot as the Sun
210×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
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.