K-type star · orange

HR 4945

HR 4945 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 433 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,440 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 433 years ago.

433 lybrightness mag 5.64K1III

Also catalogued as HD 113847 · HIP 63916

4,440 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
84.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
433 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
84.96×
the Sun's light output
0.03
absolute magnitude
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HR 4945K-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 506734 ly
Star11 CVn37 ly
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StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canes Venatici

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.