K-type star · orange

HR 4742

HR 4742 is an orange in the constellation Corvus 830 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,084 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 830 years ago.

830 lybrightness mag 6.30G5II

Also catalogued as HD 108477 · HIP 60809

5,084 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
170× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
830 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
170×
the Sun's light output
-0.73
absolute magnitude
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HR 4742K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corvus

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.