K-type star · orange

Delta Mic

Delta Mic is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,633 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.

301 lybrightness mag 5.69K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HR 8070 · HD 200718 · HIP 104148

4,633 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
39.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
301 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
39.41×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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Delta MicK-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.