K-type star · orange

HR 4272

HR 4272 is an orange in the constellation Draco 526 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,826 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 526 years ago.

526 lybrightness mag 6.18G9III

Also catalogued as HD 94860 · HIP 53761

4,826 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
76.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
526 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
76.42×
the Sun's light output
0.14
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.