K-type star · orange

HR 4693

HR 4693 is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,534 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 161 years ago.

161 lybrightness mag 5.52K2III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 107325 · HIP 60170

4,534 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
13.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
161 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
13.15×
the Sun's light output
2.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 4693K-type
Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Coma Berenices

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.