F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4451
HR 4451 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Crater 406 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,007 K, and it shines at 51.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 406 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 100418 · HIP 56364
6,007 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
51.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8/G0Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
406 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
51.33×
the Sun's light output
0.57
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.