F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4657

HR 4657 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 72.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,528 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 73 years ago.

72.9 lybrightness mag 6.11F5V

Also catalogued as HD 106516 · HIP 59750

6,528 K

temperature

6.11

apparent magnitude

1.57× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

73 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

1.57×

the Sun's light output

4.36

absolute magnitude

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HR 4657F-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.