K-type star · orange

Epsilon CrB

Epsilon CrB is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,249 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 88.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 4.14K3III

Also catalogued as HR 5947 · HD 143107 · HIP 78159

4,249 K
temperature
4.14
apparent magnitude
88.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
88.63×
the Sun's light output
-0.02
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon CrBK-type
Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Borealis

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.