K-type star · orange

HR 4409

HR 4409 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 274 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,794 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 274 years ago.

274 lybrightness mag 5.21K0III

Also catalogued as HD 99322 · HIP 55756

4,794 K
temperature
5.21
apparent magnitude
50.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
274 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
50.68×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 4409K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.