K-type star · orange

HR 4986

HR 4986 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 838 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,795 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 286× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 838 years ago.

838 lybrightness mag 5.76M0III

Also catalogued as HD 114780 · HIP 64445

3,795 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
286× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
838 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
286×
the Sun's light output
-1.29
absolute magnitude
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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.