K-type star · orange

HR 4973

HR 4973 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,628 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 222 years ago.

222 lybrightness mag 5.24K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HD 114474 · HIP 64348

4,628 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
32.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1/K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
222 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
32.45×
the Sun's light output
1.07
absolute magnitude
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HR 4973K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.