K-type star · orange

HR 52

HR 52 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 935 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,713 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 208× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 935 years ago.

935 lybrightness mag 6.34K5

Also catalogued as HD 1075 · HIP 1208

3,713 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
208× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
935 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
208×
the Sun's light output
-0.95
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.