K-type star · orange

HR 4999

HR 4999 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 387 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,821 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 387 years ago.

387 lybrightness mag 6.17K1III

Also catalogued as HD 115050 · HIP 64651

4,821 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
41.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
387 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
41.73×
the Sun's light output
0.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 4999K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 506535 ly
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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.