K-type star · orange
HR 4394
HR 4394 is an orange in the constellation Leo 631 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,848 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 124× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 631 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 98960 · HIP 55595
3,848 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
124× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
631 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
124×
the Sun's light output
-0.38
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.