F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4384
HR 4384 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Carina 120 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,523 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 120 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 98560 · HIP 55280
6,523 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
4.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
120 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
4.71×
the Sun's light output
3.17
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.