M-type star · red

HR 4526

HR 4526 is a red in the constellation Centaurus 703 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,562 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 275× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 703 years ago.

703 lybrightness mag 5.42K5III

Also catalogued as HD 102461 · HIP 57512

3,562 K

temperature

5.42

apparent magnitude

275× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

703 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

275×

the Sun's light output

-1.25

absolute magnitude

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HR 4526M-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.