K-type star · orange

HR 4727

HR 4727 is an orange in the constellation Draco 576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,946 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 576 years ago.

576 lybrightness mag 6.31G8III

Also catalogued as HD 108150 · HIP 60589

4,946 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
81.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
576 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
81.36×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.