K-type star · orange

HR 4393

HR 4393 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,928 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 351 years ago.

351 lybrightness mag 6.10G8III

Also catalogued as HD 98892 · HIP 55528

4,928 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
36.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
36.64×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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HR 4393K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHD 9817619 ly
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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.