K-type star · orange

HR 4918

HR 4918 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,583 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 6.31K0III

Also catalogued as HD 112519 · HIP 63243

4,583 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
36.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
36.85×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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HR 4918K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHD 10913242 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.