K-type star · orange

HR 4045

HR 4045 is an orange in the constellation Vela 715 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,894 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 139× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 715 years ago.

715 lybrightness mag 6.20M4/M5III

Also catalogued as HD 89273 · HIP 50332

3,894 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
139× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4/M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
715 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
139×
the Sun's light output
-0.51
absolute magnitude
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HR 4045K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

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.