G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 4903
HR 4903 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus 131 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,841 K, and it shines at 6.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 131 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 112164 · HIP 63033 · Gliese GJ 9423
5,841 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
6.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
131 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
6.17×
the Sun's light output
2.87
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.