M-type star · red
HD 107869
HD 107869 is a red in the constellation Hydra 748 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,688 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 127× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 748 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 60468
3,688 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
127× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
748 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
127×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
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.