B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4220

HR 4220 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,200 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 476 years ago.

476 lybrightness mag 5.23B7IV

Also catalogued as HD 93549 · HIP 52701

11,200 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
150× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
476 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
150×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 4220B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
StarHR 42192.1 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.