A-type star · white star

HR 4293

HR 4293 is a white star in the constellation Vela 196 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,876 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 196 years ago.

196 lybrightness mag 4.37A3IV

Also catalogued as HD 95370 · HIP 53773

8,876 K

temperature

4.37

apparent magnitude

56.34× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

196 years

at light speed from Earth

1.54×

as hot as the Sun

56.34×

the Sun's light output

0.47

absolute magnitude

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HR 4293A-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

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Bright stars in Vela

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.