G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 4768

1,400 lybrightness mag 5.49F5III

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4768G-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4556 →200 ly apart
HR 4415 →200 ly apart
HR 4830 →200 ly apart
HR 4323 →280 ly apart
HR 5002 →290 ly apart
HR 4472 →290 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.