K-type star · orange

HR 4617

HR 4617 is an orange in the constellation Musca 425 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,161 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 425 years ago.

425 lybrightness mag 5.17K2II/III

Also catalogued as HD 105340 · HIP 59151

4,161 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
425 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
absolute magnitude
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HR 4617K-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 459630 ly
StarHD 11369440 ly
StarGamma Cha45 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.