K-type star · orange

HR 4988

HR 4988 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 356 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,550 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 356 years ago.

356 lybrightness mag 5.91K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 114835 · HIP 64580

4,550 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
44.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
356 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
44.92×
the Sun's light output
0.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 4988K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 503516 ly
StarHR 497524 ly
StarHR 483231 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.