G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 4511

HR 4511 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus. Its surface is about 5,329 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87,096,359× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.

brightness mag 5.00F9Ia

Also catalogued as HD 101947 · HIP 57175

5,329 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
87,096,359× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
87,096,359×
the Sun's light output
-15.00
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.