F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4370
HR 4370 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,864 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 98096 · HIP 55068
6,864 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
7.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
7.11×
the Sun's light output
2.72
absolute magnitude
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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.