A-type star · white star

HR 4296

HR 4296 is a white star in the constellation Vela 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,257 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 199 years ago.

199 lybrightness mag 6.15A3III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 95429 · HIP 53771

8,257 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

11.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3III/IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

199 years

at light speed from Earth

1.43×

as hot as the Sun

11.27×

the Sun's light output

2.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 4296A-type

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.