K-type star · orange
HR 4092
HR 4092 is an orange in the constellation Sextans 397 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,752 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 397 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 90362 · HIP 51046
3,752 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
74.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
397 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
74.20×
the Sun's light output
0.17
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.