F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4606

HR 4606 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,129 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 237 years ago.

237 lybrightness mag 6.27F6V

Also catalogued as HD 104904 · HIP 58874

6,129 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

14.30× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

237 years

at light speed from Earth

1.06×

as hot as the Sun

14.30×

the Sun's light output

1.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 4606F-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Camelopardalis

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.