M-type star · red

HR 4224

HR 4224 is a red in the constellation Sextans 546 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,638 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 546 years ago.

546 lybrightness mag 5.92M2III

Also catalogued as HD 93655 · HIP 52863

3,638 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
546 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 4224M-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sextans

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.