K-type star · orange
HD 146740
HD 146740 is an orange in the constellation Serpens 771 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,455 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 122× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 771 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 79834
4,455 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
122× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
771 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
122×
the Sun's light output
-0.37
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.