K-type star · orange

HR 525

HR 525 is an orange in the constellation Octans 381 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,894 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 381 years ago.

381 lybrightness mag 5.66K0III

Also catalogued as HD 11025 · HIP 7568

4,894 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
64.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
381 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
64.57×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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HR 525K-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarHR 205936 ly
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StarTau¹ Hyi40 ly
StarNu Octstar
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Bright stars in Octans
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.