K-type star · orange

HR 4588

HR 4588 is an orange in the constellation Corvus 574 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,270 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 574 years ago.

574 lybrightness mag 6.28K2III

Also catalogued as HD 104307 · HIP 58574

4,270 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
83.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
574 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
83.02×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 4588K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corvus

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.