K-type star · orange

HR 4240

HR 4240 is an orange in the constellation Sextans 506 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,832 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 506 years ago.

506 lybrightness mag 5.95K2

Also catalogued as HD 94014 · HIP 53035

3,832 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
87.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
506 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
87.26×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 4240K-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.