K-type star · orange
HD 12596
Also catalogued as HIP 9562
4,051 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
174× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
838 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
174×
the Sun's light output
-0.75
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.