K-type star · orange
HR 4446
HR 4446 is an orange in the constellation Crater 481 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,983 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 481 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 100343 · HIP 56318
3,983 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
79.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
481 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
79.73×
the Sun's light output
0.10
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.