B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4215

HR 4215 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,408 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 394 years ago.

394 lybrightness mag 6.40A1V

Also catalogued as HD 93427 · HIP 52877

10,408 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
34.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
34.99×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 4215B-type
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

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.