K-type star · orange
Almach
Almach is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,000 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,828× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 393 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma¹ And · HR 603 · HD 12533 · HIP 9640
4,000 K
temperature
2.10
apparent magnitude
1,828× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
393 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
1,828×
the Sun's light output
-3.31
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.