G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 4587
HR 4587 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Virgo 41.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,404 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 42 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 104304 · HIP 58576 · Gliese Gl 454
5,404 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
0.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
42 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
0.86×
the Sun's light output
5.01
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.