B-type star · blue-white star

Lam Cru

384 lybrightness mag 4.62B4Vn

Also catalogued as HR 4897 · HD 112078 · HIP 63007

12,549 K

temperature

4.62

apparent magnitude

171× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

384 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

171×

the Sun's light output

-0.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Lam CruB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4975 →16 ly apart
HR 4848 →19 ly apart
HR 4834 →22 ly apart
Mu 2Cru →27 ly apart
HD 112381 →31 ly apart
HR 4988 →32 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.