K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 4896

HR 4896 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Virgo 323 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,528 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 323 years ago.

323 lybrightness mag 6.45K0

Also catalogued as HD 112048 · HIP 62915

4,528 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
22.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
323 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
22.41×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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HR 4896K-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.