K-type star · orange

HR 4997

HR 4997 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 459 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,601 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 183× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 459 years ago.

459 lybrightness mag 4.94K0III

Also catalogued as HD 115004 · HIP 64540

4,601 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
183× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
459 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
183×
the Sun's light output
-0.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 4997K-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 494549 ly
Star23 CVn51 ly
StarHR 518060 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canes Venatici

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.