F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4149

HR 4149 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,407 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 215 years ago.

215 lybrightness mag 6.10F6V

Also catalogued as HD 91706 · HIP 51795

6,407 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

13.74× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

215 years

at light speed from Earth

1.11×

as hot as the Sun

13.74×

the Sun's light output

2.00

absolute magnitude

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HR 4149F-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.