M-type star · red

HR 4179

HR 4179 is a red in the constellation Carina 682 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,526 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 157× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 682 years ago.

682 lybrightness mag 5.96M1III

Also catalogued as HD 92436 · HIP 52127

3,526 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
157× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
682 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
157×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
absolute magnitude
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HR 4179M-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.