K-type star · orange
HR 471
HR 471 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,637 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 10142 · HIP 7643
4,637 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
37.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
37.98×
the Sun's light output
0.90
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.