K-type star · orange

Rho Per

Rho Per is an orange in the constellation Perseus 308 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,752 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 364× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 308 years ago.

308 lybrightness mag 3.32M3IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 921 · HD 19058 · HIP 14354

3,752 K
temperature
3.32
apparent magnitude
364× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
308 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
364×
the Sun's light output
-1.55
absolute magnitude
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Rho PerK-type
Sky regionPerseusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.