K-type star · orange

HR 616

HR 616 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 602 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,004 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 602 years ago.

602 lybrightness mag 6.29K0

Also catalogued as HD 12923 · HIP 9827

5,004 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
90.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
602 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
90.36×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.