K-type star · orange

HR 4718

620 lybrightness mag 6.24K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 107998 · HIP 60549

4,370 K

temperature

6.24

apparent magnitude

100× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2/K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

620 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

100×

the Sun's light output

-0.15

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4718K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4652 →69 ly apart
HR 4906 →78 ly apart
HR 4620 →86 ly apart
HR 4871 →91 ly apart
HR 4774 →97 ly apart
HR 4982 →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.