K-type star · orange

HR 4233

HR 4233 is an orange in the constellation Sextans 341 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,572 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 341 years ago.

341 lybrightness mag 5.85G8III:

Also catalogued as HD 93833 · HIP 52948

4,572 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
43.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
341 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
43.45×
the Sun's light output
0.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 4233K-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
StarHR 430522 ly
Star41 Sex31 ly
StarHR 417232 ly
StarAlpha Sexstar
StarGamma Sexstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sextans
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.