K-type star · orange

Rho² Eri

Rho² Eri is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 265 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,889 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 265 years ago.

265 lybrightness mag 5.32K0II-III

Also catalogued as HR 917 · HD 18953 · HIP 14168

4,889 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
42.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
265 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
42.74×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.