K-type star · orange
16 Ari
16 Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 767 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,009 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 767 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 633 · HD 13363 · HIP 10203
4,009 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
767 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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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.