M-type star · red

HD 100456

1,226 lybrightness mag 6.49K5

Also catalogued as HIP 56388

3,648 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
312× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,226 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
312×
the Sun's light output
-1.39
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.