K-type star · orange

HR 528

HR 528 is an orange in the constellation Fornax 513 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,705 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 513 years ago.

513 lybrightness mag 6.33K0III

Also catalogued as HD 11050 · HIP 8369

4,705 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
63.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
513 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
63.27×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.