K-type star · orange
HR 4448
HR 4448 is an orange in the constellation Musca 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,438 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 307 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 100382 · HIP 56287
4,438 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
33.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
307 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
33.88×
the Sun's light output
1.02
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.