B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4219

HR 4219 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,506 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 137× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 476 years ago.

476 lybrightness mag 5.33B7:V

Also catalogued as HD 93540 · HIP 52678

11,506 K
temperature
5.33
apparent magnitude
137× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7:V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
476 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
137×
the Sun's light output
-0.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 4219B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
StarHR 42202.1 ly
StarHD 937383.3 ly
StarHR 42224.4 ly
StarMiaplacidusstar
StarAviorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.