K-type star · orange

HR 4474

HR 4474 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 421 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,585 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 421 years ago.

421 lybrightness mag 6.14K0p...

Also catalogued as HD 101013 · HIP 56731

4,585 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
50.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
421 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
50.72×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

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.