K-type star · orange

HR 4882

HR 4882 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 1,792 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,502 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 824× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,792 years ago.

1,792 lybrightness mag 6.26G8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 111790 · HIP 62821

4,502 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
824× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,792 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
824×
the Sun's light output
-2.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 4882K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 4556360 ly
StarHR 5206400 ly
StarHR 5039410 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.