K-type star · orange
HD 1142
HD 1142 is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 434 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,169 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 434 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 1269
5,169 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
41.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
434 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
41.27×
the Sun's light output
0.81
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.