K-type star · orange
36 Ari
36 Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,424 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 338 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 808 · HD 17017 · HIP 12784
4,424 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
25.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
25.70×
the Sun's light output
1.32
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.