K-type star · orange

HR 4793

HR 4793 is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 638 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,228 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 638 years ago.

638 lybrightness mag 5.86K1III

Also catalogued as HD 109519 · HIP 61420

4,228 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
638 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Coma Berenices

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.