K-type star · orange

HR 4992

HR 4992 is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,307 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 347 years ago.

347 lybrightness mag 6.10G8III

Also catalogued as HD 114889 · HIP 64496

4,307 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
35.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
347 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
35.71×
the Sun's light output
0.97
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Coma Berenices

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.