K-type star · orange dwarf
HD 13004
HD 13004 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cetus 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,424 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 293 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 9862
4,424 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
19.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
19.52×
the Sun's light output
1.62
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.