K-type star · orange

HR 4755

HR 4755 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 738 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,771 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 178× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 738 years ago.

738 lybrightness mag 6.00M2II/III

Also catalogued as HD 108759 · HIP 60979

3,771 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
178× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
738 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
178×
the Sun's light output
-0.77
absolute magnitude
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HR 4755K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.