K-type star · orange

HR 4812

HR 4812 is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 434 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,523 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 434 years ago.

434 lybrightness mag 6.39K1III

Also catalogued as HD 109996 · HIP 61719

4,523 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
42.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
434 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
42.93×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.