K-type star · orange

HR 4478

HR 4478 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,556 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 6.18K1III

Also catalogued as HD 101112 · HIP 56756

4,556 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
39.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
39.08×
the Sun's light output
0.87
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.