F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4698

HR 4698 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,912 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 299 years ago.

300 lybrightness mag 6.32F3V + F3V

Also catalogued as HD 107398 · HIP 60197

6,912 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
21.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V + F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
21.78×
the Sun's light output
1.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 4698F-type
Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.