K-type star · orange
HR 795
HR 795 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 656 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,358 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 132× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 656 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 16824 · HIP 12584
4,358 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
132× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
656 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
132×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
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.