B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4387

HR 4387 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,329 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 524 years ago.

524 lybrightness mag 6.26B9.5/A0V

Also catalogued as HD 98672 · HIP 55308

10,329 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
70.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5/A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
70.34×
the Sun's light output
0.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 4387B-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHD 9867146 ly
StarKappa Cha54 ly
StarHR 434956 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Musca

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.