K-type star · orange
HR 651
HR 651 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,728 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 347 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 13692 · HIP 10326
4,728 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
44.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
347 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
44.63×
the Sun's light output
0.73
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.