K-type star · orange

Beemim

Beemim is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 296 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,842 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 186× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 296 years ago.

296 lybrightness mag 3.97K4III

Also catalogued as 43 Eri · HR 1393 · HD 28028 · HIP 20535

3,842 K
temperature
3.97
apparent magnitude
186× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
296 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
186×
the Sun's light output
-0.82
absolute magnitude
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BeemimK-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.