F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4646

HR 4646 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 109 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,112 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 109 years ago.

109 lybrightness mag 5.14A5m

Also catalogued as HD 106112 · HIP 59504

7,112 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
8.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
109 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
8.53×
the Sun's light output
2.52
absolute magnitude
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HR 4646F-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook 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.