K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 4059

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
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
HR 4059K-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
Star29Del Sex30 ly
Star15Alp Sex32 ly
StarBibha34 ly
Star8Gam Sexstar
Star30Bet Sexstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sextans
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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.