K-type star · orange
HR 4877
HR 4877 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 509 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,672 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 509 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 111720 · HIP 62743
4,672 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
54.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
509 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
54.25×
the Sun's light output
0.51
absolute magnitude
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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.