G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 4979
HR 4979 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus 67.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,626 K, and it shines at 4.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 67 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 114613 · HIP 64408 · Gliese Gl 501.2
5,626 K
temperature
4.85
apparent magnitude
4.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
67 years
at light speed from Earth
0.97×
as hot as the Sun
4.27×
the Sun's light output
3.27
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.