K-type star · orange

HR 4982

HR 4982 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 575 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,610 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 575 years ago.

575 lybrightness mag 6.19K0III

Also catalogued as HD 114707 · HIP 64472

4,610 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
90.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
575 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
90.53×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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HR 4982K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.