K-type star · orange

HR 4741

HR 4741 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,904 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 510 years ago.

510 lybrightness mag 6.36G8III

Also catalogued as HD 108471 · HIP 60804

4,904 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
60.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
60.93×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.