A-type star · white star
HR 4214
HR 4214 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 206 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,913 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 206 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 93397 · HIP 52737
8,913 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
23.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
206 years
at light speed from Earth
1.54×
as hot as the Sun
23.14×
the Sun's light output
1.44
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.