K-type star · orange

HR 4818

HR 4818 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 906 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,832 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 310× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 906 years ago.

906 lybrightness mag 5.84K3II

Also catalogued as HD 110287 · HIP 61916

3,832 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
310× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
906 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
310×
the Sun's light output
-1.38
absolute magnitude
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HR 4818K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 5038150 ly
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.