K-type star · orange dwarf
Beta Ret
Beta Ret is an orange dwarf in the constellation Reticulum 97.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,445 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 97 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1175 · HD 23817 · HIP 17440 · Gliese Gl 154.2
4,445 K
temperature
3.84
apparent magnitude
22.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
97 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
22.59×
the Sun's light output
1.47
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.