B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4316

HR 4316 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 488 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,369 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 488 years ago.

488 lybrightness mag 6.11B9V

Also catalogued as HD 96224 · HIP 54185

10,369 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
70.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
488 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
70.21×
the Sun's light output
0.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 4316B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 426363 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.