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Star · K4III

HIP 64077

HIP 64077 is a giant star of spectral type K4III in the constellation Coma Berenices, 470.7 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationComa Berenices
Distance470.7 light-years (144.3 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.20
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 0.40
Spectral typeK4III
Surface temperature4,010 K
Luminosity167 L☉
Radius26.7 R☉
Mass3.92 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)13h 07m 53.6s
Declination (J2000)+27° 33′ 21″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)52.0 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.20). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 62° S. North of latitude 62° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in April, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1555. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 8.3 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 64077, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 10.63, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Sculptor. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

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Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.