K-type star · orange

HR 4177

HR 4177 is an orange in the constellation Carina 2,346 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,703 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5,998× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,346 years ago.

2,346 lybrightness mag 4.69K4/K5III:

Also catalogued as HD 92397 · HIP 52102

3,703 K
temperature
4.69
apparent magnitude
5,998× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4/K5III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,346 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
5,998×
the Sun's light output
-4.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 4177K-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.