K-type star · orange dwarf
Epsilon Ret
Epsilon Ret is an orange dwarf in the constellation Reticulum 59.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,563 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1355 · HD 27442 · HIP 19921 · Gliese Gl 167.3
4,563 K
temperature
4.44
apparent magnitude
4.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
4.85×
the Sun's light output
3.13
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.