F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4417
HR 4417 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,313 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 147× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 612 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 99574 · HIP 55849
6,313 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
147× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
612 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
147×
the Sun's light output
-0.57
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.