G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 4492

HR 4492 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Musca 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,269 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 204× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 502 years ago.

502 lybrightness mag 5.01G2III + A

Also catalogued as HD 101379 · HIP 56862

5,269 K

temperature

5.01

apparent magnitude

204× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2III + A

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

502 years

at light speed from Earth

0.91×

as hot as the Sun

204×

the Sun's light output

-0.93

absolute magnitude

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HR 4492G-type

Sky regionMuscathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Musca

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.