B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4355
HR 4355 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 313 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,279 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 313 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 97583 · HIP 54767
11,279 K
temperature
5.22
apparent magnitude
65.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
313 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
65.40×
the Sun's light output
0.31
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.