K-type star · orange

HR 4539

HR 4539 is an orange in the constellation Crater 576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,874 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 576 years ago.

576 lybrightness mag 6.13G8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 102845 · HIP 57732

4,874 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
96.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
576 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
96.03×
the Sun's light output
-0.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 4539K-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarHR 449035 ly
StarHR 458865 ly
StarHR 4532110 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.