K-type star · orange

HD 12116

HD 12116 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 358 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,455 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 358 years ago.

358 lybrightness mag 6.46G5

Also catalogued as HIP 9237

4,455 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
27.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
27.34×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.