K-type star · orange
HR 4419
HR 4419 is an orange in the constellation Leo 525 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,656 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 525 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 99651 · HIP 55941
4,656 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
72.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
525 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
72.78×
the Sun's light output
0.20
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.