K-type star · orange
HR 587
HR 587 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,965 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 125× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 476 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 12292 · HIP 9372
3,965 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
125× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
476 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
125×
the Sun's light output
-0.39
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.