G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 4489

HR 4489 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Crater 206 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,218 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 206 years ago.

206 lybrightness mag 6.40G6/G8V

Also catalogued as HD 101259 · HIP 56830 · Gliese GJ 3679

5,218 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

9.55× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G6/G8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

206 years

at light speed from Earth

0.90×

as hot as the Sun

9.55×

the Sun's light output

2.40

absolute magnitude

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HR 4489G-type

Sky regionCraterthis direction

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Bright stars in Crater

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Crater

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.