K-type star · orange
Kraz
Kraz is an orange in the constellation Corvus 146 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,015 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 146 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Crv · HR 4786 · HD 109379 · HIP 61359
5,015 K
temperature
2.65
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
146 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
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.