K-type star · orange
HR 4595
HR 4595 is an orange in the constellation Octans 371 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,139 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 371 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 104555 · HIP 58697
4,139 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
42.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
371 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
42.85×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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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.