K-type star · orange

HR 4960

HR 4960 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 308 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,684 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 308 years ago.

308 lybrightness mag 5.79K0III

Also catalogued as HD 114256 · HIP 64179

4,684 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
37.60× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
308 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
37.60×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 4960K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.