K-type star · orange

HR 4280

HR 4280 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 826 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,845 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 362× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 826 years ago.

826 lybrightness mag 5.47K5III

Also catalogued as HD 95212 · HIP 53781

3,845 K

temperature

5.47

apparent magnitude

362× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

826 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

362×

the Sun's light output

-1.55

absolute magnitude

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HR 4280K-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.