K-type star · orange

HR 4991

HR 4991 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,007 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 347 years ago.

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
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HR 4991K-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.