K-type star · orange

HR 4973

222 lybrightness mag 5.24K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HD 114474 · HIP 64348

4,628 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

32.45× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1/K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

222 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

32.45×

the Sun's light output

1.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4973K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5008 →12 ly apart
HR 4836 →24 ly apart
Xi 1Cen →24 ly apart
HR 5058 →25 ly apart
HR 4996 →26 ly apart
HR 4796 →34 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 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.