K-type star · orange

Epsilon Cir

Epsilon Cir is an orange in the constellation Circinus 408 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,194 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 408 years ago.

408 lybrightness mag 4.85K2.5III

Also catalogued as HR 5666 · HD 135291 · HIP 74837

4,194 K
temperature
4.85
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
408 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon CirK-type
Sky regionCircinusthis direction
StarHD 13355724 ly
StarHR 585149 ly
StarHR 538251 ly
StarXamistar
StarBeta Cirstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Circinus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Circinus

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.