G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 4788
HR 4788 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus 92.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,660 K, and it shines at 3.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 92 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 109409 · HIP 61379
5,660 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
3.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
92 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
3.47×
the Sun's light output
3.50
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.