M-type star · red

HR 4497

1,140 lybrightness mag 5.95M1III

Also catalogued as HD 101541 · HIP 56970

3,555 K

temperature

5.95

apparent magnitude

444× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,140 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

444×

the Sun's light output

-1.77

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4497M-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4582 →130 ly apart
HD 94491 →160 ly apart
HD 93695 →190 ly apart
HR 4200 →200 ly apart
HR 4159 →200 ly apart
HR 4323 →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.