K-type star · orange
HR 4404
HR 4404 is an orange in the constellation Leo 490 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,990 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 490 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 99196 · HIP 55716
3,990 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
94.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
490 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
94.28×
the Sun's light output
-0.09
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.