K-type star · orange
Epsilon And
Epsilon And is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 164 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,075 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 164 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 163 · HD 3546 · HIP 3031
5,075 K
temperature
4.34
apparent magnitude
40.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
164 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
40.36×
the Sun's light output
0.83
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.