K-type star · orange

HR 4850

HR 4850 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,075 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 5.87K3III

Also catalogued as HD 111032 · HIP 62360

4,075 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
46.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
46.39×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 4850K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 481744 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.