M-type star · red

HR 4284

HR 4284 is a red in the constellation Crater 662 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,649 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 159× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 662 years ago.

662 lybrightness mag 5.88M1III

Also catalogued as HD 95234 · HIP 53723

3,649 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
159× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
662 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
159×
the Sun's light output
-0.66
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crater

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.