K-type star · orange

HR 849

HR 849 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 1,763 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,348 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 820× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,763 years ago.

1,763 lybrightness mag 6.23G5Iab:

Also catalogued as HD 17818 · HIP 13462

4,348 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
820× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5Iab:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,763 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
820×
the Sun's light output
-2.43
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Perseus

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.