K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 4059

HR 4059 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Sextans 299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,013 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 299 years ago.

299 lybrightness mag 6.38K0

Also catalogued as HD 89490 · HIP 50552

5,013 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
20.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
20.53×
the Sun's light output
1.57
absolute magnitude
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HR 4059K-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
StarDelta Sex30 ly
StarAlpha Sex32 ly
StarBibha34 ly
StarGamma Sexstar
StarBeta Sexstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sextans

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.