K-type star · orange

HR 4772

HR 4772 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 405 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,646 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 405 years ago.

405 lybrightness mag 6.19G9III:

Also catalogued as HD 109014 · HIP 61134

4,646 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
44.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
405 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
44.79×
the Sun's light output
0.72
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.