A-type star · white star

HR 4326

HR 4326 is a white star in the constellation Carina 439 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,895 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 439 years ago.

439 lybrightness mag 6.39A3V

Also catalogued as HD 96568 · HIP 54289

8,895 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
43.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
439 years
at light speed from Earth
1.54×
as hot as the Sun
43.85×
the Sun's light output
0.74
absolute magnitude
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HR 4326A-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
StarHR 419625 ly
StarTheta Car26 ly
StarLambda Cen34 ly
StarMiaplacidusstar
StarAviorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Carina
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.