K-type star · orange dwarf

Ayeyarwady

Ayeyarwady is an orange dwarf in the constellation Eridanus 441 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,902 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 7.8 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 441 years ago.

441 lybrightness mag 7.81G8/K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 18742 · HIP 13993

4,902 K
temperature
7.81
apparent magnitude
11.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
441 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
11.99×
the Sun's light output
2.15
absolute magnitude
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AyeyarwadyK-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
StarGamma¹ For34 ly
StarGamma² For61 ly
StarHR 90068 ly
StarCursastar
StarAcamarstar
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Bright stars in Eridanus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 7.8To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.