K-type star · orange
Adhil
Adhil is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 214 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,565 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 214 years ago.
Also catalogued as Xi And · HR 390 · HD 8207 · HIP 6411
4,565 K
temperature
4.87
apparent magnitude
42.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
214 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
42.42×
the Sun's light output
0.78
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.