K-type star · orange

HR 4998

HR 4998 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 478 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,773 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 478 years ago.

478 lybrightness mag 5.64M0III

Also catalogued as HD 115046 · HIP 64607

3,773 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
478 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.