M-type star · red

HR 4759

HR 4759 is a red in the constellation Corvus 982 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,555 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 442× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 982 years ago.

982 lybrightness mag 5.63M0III

Also catalogued as HD 108821 · HIP 61015

3,555 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
442× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
982 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
442×
the Sun's light output
-1.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 4759M-type
Sky regionCorvusthis direction
StarHR 4579150 ly
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Bright stars in Corvus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.