B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4290

HR 4290 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 386 years ago.

386 lybrightness mag 6.16B8IV

Also catalogued as HD 95324 · HIP 53701

11,001 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
41.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
386 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
41.80×
the Sun's light output
0.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 4290B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.