G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 4691
HR 4691 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Corvus 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,209 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 107295 · HIP 60157
5,209 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
51.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
386 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
51.33×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.