K-type star · orange
HR 4261
HR 4261 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 585 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,519 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 585 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 94619 · HIP 53387
4,519 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
73.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
585 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
73.59×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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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.