A-type star · white star

HR 4212

HR 4212 is a white star in the constellation Carina 328 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,960 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 328 years ago.

328 lybrightness mag 6.43A6IV

Also catalogued as HD 93359 · HIP 52537

7,960 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
23.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
328 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
23.62×
the Sun's light output
1.42
absolute magnitude
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HR 4212A-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.