A-type star · white star

HR 4327

HR 4327 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 274 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,777 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 274 years ago.

274 lybrightness mag 5.15Ap SrCrEu

Also catalogued as HD 96616 · HIP 54360

9,777 K
temperature
5.15
apparent magnitude
53.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap SrCrEu
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
274 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
53.65×
the Sun's light output
0.53
absolute magnitude
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HR 4327A-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHD 9741327 ly
StarHR 431127 ly
StarHR 429232 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.