F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4803
HR 4803 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 112 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,252 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 112 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 109799 · HIP 61621
7,252 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
7.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
112 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
7.03×
the Sun's light output
2.73
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.