K-type star · orange

Hamal

Hamal is an orange in the constellation Aries 65.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,407 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 66 years ago.

65.8 lybrightness mag 2.01K2III

Also catalogued as Alpha Ari · HR 617 · HD 12929 · HIP 9884 · Gliese Gl 84.3

4,407 K
temperature
2.01
apparent magnitude
55.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
66 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
55.67×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.