K-type star · orange

HR 4180

HR 4180 is an orange in the constellation Vela 841 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,684 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 841 years ago.

841 lybrightness mag 4.29G2II

Also catalogued as HD 92449 · HIP 52154

4,684 K

temperature

4.29

apparent magnitude

1,113× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

841 years

at light speed from Earth

0.81×

as hot as the Sun

1,113×

the Sun's light output

-2.77

absolute magnitude

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HR 4180K-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

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Bright stars in Vela

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.