K-type star · orange

62 Ari

62 Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 884 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,515 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 385× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 884 years ago.

884 lybrightness mag 5.55G5III

Also catalogued as HR 1012 · HD 20825 · HIP 15696

4,515 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
385× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
884 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
385×
the Sun's light output
-1.61
absolute magnitude
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62 AriK-type
Sky regionAriesthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.