F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4642

HR 4642 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,735 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 232 years ago.

232 lybrightness mag 6.47F5V

Also catalogued as HD 106022 · HIP 59489

6,735 K

temperature

6.47

apparent magnitude

11.41× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

232 years

at light speed from Earth

1.17×

as hot as the Sun

11.41×

the Sun's light output

2.21

absolute magnitude

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HR 4642F-type

Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction

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Bright stars in Coma Berenices

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Coma Berenices

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.