A-type star · white star
HR 4406
HR 4406 is a white star in the constellation Musca 994 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,918 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 488× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 994 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 99264 · HIP 55657
9,918 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
488× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
994 years
at light speed from Earth
1.72×
as hot as the Sun
488×
the Sun's light output
-1.87
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.