M-type star · red

HR 4682

HR 4682 is a red in the constellation Centaurus 494 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,649 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 198× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 494 years ago.

494 lybrightness mag 5.01M1III

Also catalogued as HD 107079 · HIP 60059

3,649 K
temperature
5.01
apparent magnitude
198× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
494 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
198×
the Sun's light output
-0.89
absolute magnitude
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HR 4682M-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 475423 ly
StarHR 473256 ly
StarHR 473961 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.