B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4292
HR 4292 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 305 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 305 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 95347 · HIP 53762
11,001 K
temperature
5.81
apparent magnitude
36.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
305 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
36.14×
the Sun's light output
0.95
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.