K-type star · orange
4 Vul
4 Vul is an orange in the constellation Vulpecula 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,745 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 272 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7385 · HD 182762 · HIP 95498
4,745 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
53.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
53.06×
the Sun's light output
0.54
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.