M-type star · red

HR 85

HR 85 is a red in the constellation Cetus 882 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,677 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 363× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 881 years ago.

882 lybrightness mag 5.61M5/M6Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 1760 · HIP 1728

3,677 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
363× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5/M6Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
881 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
363×
the Sun's light output
-1.55
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.