K-type star · orange

HR 572

HR 572 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 965 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,500 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 292× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 965 years ago.

965 lybrightness mag 6.04K0

Also catalogued as HD 12005 · HIP 9568

4,500 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
292× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
965 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
292×
the Sun's light output
-1.31
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.