M-type star · red

Delta Ret

Delta Ret is a red in the constellation Reticulum 526 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,663 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 340× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 526 years ago.

526 lybrightness mag 4.56M2III

Also catalogued as HR 1247 · HD 25422 · HIP 18597

3,663 K
temperature
4.56
apparent magnitude
340× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
526 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
340×
the Sun's light output
-1.48
absolute magnitude
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Delta RetM-type
Sky regionReticulumthis direction
StarGamma Ret57 ly
StarHR 109664 ly
StarHR 154064 ly
StarRhombusstar
StarBeta Retstar
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Bright stars in Reticulum
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.