K-type star · orange

HR 4613

HR 4613 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 581 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,750 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 581 years ago.

581 lybrightness mag 6.37G8III:

Also catalogued as HD 105089 · HIP 59010

4,750 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
78.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
581 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
78.34×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.