K-type star · orange

Epsilon Col

Epsilon Col is an orange in the constellation Columba 263 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,451 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 162× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 263 years ago.

263 lybrightness mag 3.86K1II/III

Also catalogued as HR 1862 · HD 36597 · HIP 25859

4,451 K
temperature
3.86
apparent magnitude
162× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
263 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
162×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon ColK-type
Sky regionColumbathis direction
StarHR 18816.3 ly
StarPhact10 ly
StarHR 183525 ly
StarWaznstar
StarDelta Colstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Columba
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.