K-type star · orange dwarf
Belel
Belel is an orange dwarf in the constellation Sagittarius 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 7.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 361 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 181342 · HIP 95124
4,691 K
temperature
7.55
apparent magnitude
10.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
361 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
10.18×
the Sun's light output
2.33
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.