K-type star · orange dwarf
HR 4085
HR 4085 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Sextans 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 307 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 90125 · HIP 50939
4,764 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
22.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
307 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
22.64×
the Sun's light output
1.46
absolute magnitude
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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.