K-type star · orange

HR 725

HR 725 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 335 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 335 years ago.

335 lybrightness mag 6.09K2III

Also catalogued as HD 15453 · HIP 11603

4,691 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
33.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
335 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
33.64×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.