B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4415

HR 4415 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 1,365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,200 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,245× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,365 years ago.

1,365 lybrightness mag 5.22B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 99556 · HIP 55831

11,200 K

temperature

5.22

apparent magnitude

1,245× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,365 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

1,245×

the Sun's light output

-2.89

absolute magnitude

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HR 4415B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.