K-type star · orange

Rho¹ Eri

Rho¹ Eri is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 324 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,642 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 324 years ago.

324 lybrightness mag 5.75K0II

Also catalogued as HR 907 · HD 18784 · HIP 14060

4,642 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
43.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
324 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
43.05×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.