K-type star · orange

HR 4956

HR 4956 is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 433 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,012 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 433 years ago.

433 lybrightness mag 6.20K4III

Also catalogued as HD 114092 · HIP 64077

4,012 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
50.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
433 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
50.72×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 4956K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Coma Berenices

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.