K-type star · orange

HR 4862

HR 4862 is an orange in the constellation Musca 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,401 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 108× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.55G8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 111315 · HIP 62608

4,401 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
108× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
108×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 4862K-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 504935 ly
StarHR 459645 ly
StarKappa Cha46 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.