K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 4046

HR 4046 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Ursa Major 145 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 145 years ago.

145 lybrightness mag 6.00K0

Also catalogued as HD 89319 · HIP 50546

4,691 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
6.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
145 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
6.84×
the Sun's light output
2.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.