K-type star · orange

HR 608

HR 608 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 358 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,826 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 358 years ago.

358 lybrightness mag 5.87K0II/III

Also catalogued as HD 12583 · HIP 9572

4,826 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
47.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
47.21×
the Sun's light output
0.67
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.