K-type star · orange

HR 4462

HR 4462 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 192 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,646 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 192 years ago.

192 lybrightness mag 5.50K1III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 100708 · HIP 56497

4,646 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
19.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
192 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
19.02×
the Sun's light output
1.65
absolute magnitude
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HR 4462K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 446611 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.