K-type star · orange

HR 4091

HR 4091 is an orange in the constellation Carina 877 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,768 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 183× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 877 years ago.

877 lybrightness mag 6.34K5Ib-II

Also catalogued as HD 90289 · HIP 50916

3,768 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
183× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5Ib-II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
877 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
183×
the Sun's light output
-0.81
absolute magnitude
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HR 4091K-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.