K-type star · orange

HR 4988

356 lybrightness mag 5.91K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 114835 · HIP 64580

4,550 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

44.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0/K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

356 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

44.92×

the Sun's light output

0.72

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4988K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5035 →16 ly apart
HR 4975 →24 ly apart
HR 4832 →31 ly apart
Lam Cru →32 ly apart
HD 119727 →39 ly apart
HR 4848 →40 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 5.9To 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.