G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
63 Eri
63 Eri is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Eridanus 176 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,290 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 176 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1608 · HD 32008 · HIP 23221
5,290 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
17.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
176 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
17.72×
the Sun's light output
1.73
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.