M-type star · red

HR 4200

HR 4200 is a red in the constellation Carina 1,140 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,516 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,567× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,140 years ago.

1,140 lybrightness mag 4.58K3Ib

Also catalogued as HD 93070 · HIP 52468

3,516 K
temperature
4.58
apparent magnitude
1,567× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,140 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
1,567×
the Sun's light output
-3.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 4200M-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
StarHD 9369530 ly
StarHD 9449141 ly
StarHD 9096668 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.