G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 4768
HR 4768 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Crux 1,400 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,883 K, and it shines at 1,021× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,400 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 108968 · HIP 61136
5,883 K
temperature
5.49
apparent magnitude
1,021× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,400 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
1,021×
the Sun's light output
-2.67
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.