K-type star · orange
HR 4941
HR 4941 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 344 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,626 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 344 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 113778 · HIP 63972
4,626 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
56.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
344 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
56.39×
the Sun's light output
0.47
absolute magnitude
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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.