K-type star · orange

HR 552

HR 552 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 534 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,370 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 534 years ago.

534 lybrightness mag 6.28K0

Also catalogued as HD 11624 · HIP 8930

4,370 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
71.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
534 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
71.78×
the Sun's light output
0.21
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.