F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4285
HR 4285 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 145 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,031 K, and it shines at 6.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 145 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 95241 · HIP 53791
6,031 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
6.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
145 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
6.63×
the Sun's light output
2.80
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.