K-type star · orange

HR 537

HR 537 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 496 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,748 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 496 years ago.

496 lybrightness mag 6.14K1IV

Also catalogued as HD 11332 · HIP 8552

4,748 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

70.40× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

496 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

70.40×

the Sun's light output

0.23

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Phoenix

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.