K-type star · orange

HR 4546

HR 4546 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 433 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,152 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 250× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 433 years ago.

433 lybrightness mag 4.47K4III

Also catalogued as HD 102964 · HIP 57803

4,152 K
temperature
4.47
apparent magnitude
250× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
433 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
250×
the Sun's light output
-1.15
absolute magnitude
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HR 4546K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHD 10408038 ly
StarHR 456846 ly
StarHR 461847 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.