A-type star · white star

HR 4225

HR 4225 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,789 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.87A1V

Also catalogued as HD 93657 · HIP 52841

9,789 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
80.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
80.02×
the Sun's light output
0.09
absolute magnitude
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HR 4225A-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 423839 ly
StarDelta Ant46 ly
StarHR 416246 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.