B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4262

HR 4262 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 760 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 760 years ago.

760 lybrightness mag 5.99B6V

Also catalogued as HD 94650 · HIP 53272

10,382 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
760 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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HR 4262B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.