K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 4749

138 lybrightness mag 6.15K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 108570 · HIP 60870

4,943 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

5.42× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0/K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

138 years

at light speed from Earth

0.86×

as hot as the Sun

5.42×

the Sun's light output

3.02

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4749K-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4980 →16 ly apart
Uklun →17 ly apart
Gam Cen →20 ly apart
Tau Cen →20 ly apart
HR 4790 →21 ly apart
Iot Cru →21 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Crux

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.