M-type star · red

HR 4463

HR 4463 is a red in the constellation Centaurus 722 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,539 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 236× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 722 years ago.

722 lybrightness mag 5.64M3III

Also catalogued as HD 100733 · HIP 56518

3,539 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
236× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
722 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
236×
the Sun's light output
-1.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 4463M-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 451943 ly
StarHR 442364 ly
StarHR 4364100 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.