G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

32 Eri

32 Eri is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Eridanus 313 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,699 K, and it shines at 132× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 313 years ago.

313 lybrightness mag 4.46G8III

Also catalogued as HR 1211 · HD 24554 · HIP 18255

5,699 K
temperature
4.46
apparent magnitude
132× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
313 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
132×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.