K-type star · orange

HR 500

1,190 lybrightness mag 4.98K3II-III

Also catalogued as HD 10550 · HIP 7999

3,987 K

temperature

4.98

apparent magnitude

1,181× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3II-III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,190 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

1,181×

the Sun's light output

-2.83

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 500K-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 9690 →80 ly apart
69 Cet →240 ly apart
HD 13763 →250 ly apart
HD 12702 →250 ly apart
HD 11396 →250 ly apart
HR 284 →310 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To 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.