K-type star · orange
Epsilon Tel
Epsilon Tel is an orange in the constellation Telescopium 418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,721 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 223× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 418 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6783 · HD 166063 · HIP 89112
4,721 K
temperature
4.52
apparent magnitude
223× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
418 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
223×
the Sun's light output
-1.02
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.