K-type star · orange
HR 4658
HR 4658 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,738 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 402 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 106572 · HIP 59785
4,738 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
42.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
402 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
42.15×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
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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.