M-type star · red

HR 46

HR 46 is a red in the constellation Cetus 582 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,648 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 246× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 582 years ago.

582 lybrightness mag 5.13M3IIIvar

Also catalogued as HD 1014 · HIP 1158

3,648 K
temperature
5.13
apparent magnitude
246× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
582 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
246×
the Sun's light output
-1.13
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.