K-type star · orange

HR 4121

HR 4121 is an orange in the constellation Draco 523 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,833 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 523 years ago.

523 lybrightness mag 6.48G4III:

Also catalogued as HD 91075 · HIP 51883

4,833 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
57.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
523 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
57.23×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.