M-type star · red

HR 4906

HR 4906 is a red in the constellation Centaurus 662 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,557 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 235× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 662 years ago.

662 lybrightness mag 5.46M0III

Also catalogued as HD 112213 · HIP 63066

3,557 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
235× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
662 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
235×
the Sun's light output
-1.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 4906M-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 471878 ly
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.