G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Quadrans
Quadrans is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Boötes 40.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,789 K, and it shines at 1.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 41 years ago.
Also catalogued as 44 Boo · HR 5618 · HD 133640 · HIP 73695 · Gliese Gl 575A
5,789 K
temperature
4.83
apparent magnitude
1.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V + G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
41 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
1.59×
the Sun's light output
4.34
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.