K-type star · orange

HR 4353

HR 4353 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 849 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,614 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 210× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 849 years ago.

849 lybrightness mag 6.12G8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 97550 · HIP 54783

4,614 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
210× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
849 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
210×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 4353K-type
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

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.