F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4600

HR 4600 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 82.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,791 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 83 years ago.

82.6 lybrightness mag 5.15F6V

Also catalogued as HD 104731 · HIP 58803 · Gliese GJ 3701

6,791 K

temperature

5.15

apparent magnitude

4.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

83 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

4.87×

the Sun's light output

3.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 4600F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.