K-type star · orange

HR 4508

849 lybrightness mag 5.98K3III

Also catalogued as HD 101883 · HIP 57165

3,872 K

temperature

5.98

apparent magnitude

239× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

849 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

239×

the Sun's light output

-1.10

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4508K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4612 →110 ly apart
HR 4364 →130 ly apart
HR 4346 →140 ly apart
HR 4423 →170 ly apart
HR 4755 →180 ly apart
HD 107869 →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.