K-type star · orange

HR 4860

HR 4860 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,874 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 320 years ago.

320 lybrightness mag 5.65G8III

Also catalogued as HD 111295 · HIP 62500

4,874 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
46.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
46.17×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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HR 4860K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star6 Crv37 ly
StarHR 485049 ly
StarHR 497851 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.