K-type star · orange

HR 4888

HR 4888 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,044 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 131× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.

294 lybrightness mag 4.33K3/K4III

Also catalogued as HD 111915 · HIP 62867

4,044 K
temperature
4.33
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3/K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
absolute magnitude
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HR 4888K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHD 11353738 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.