K-type star · orange

HR 4991

347 lybrightness mag 6.16K5II

Also catalogued as HD 114873 · HIP 64557

4,007 K

temperature

6.16

apparent magnitude

33.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

347 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

33.85×

the Sun's light output

1.03

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4991K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4941 →13 ly apart
HD 113537 →31 ly apart
HR 5155 →37 ly apart
HR 5092 →44 ly apart
HR 4817 →48 ly apart
HR 4985 →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

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.