K-type star · orange

HR 862

HR 862 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,646 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 364 years ago.

364 lybrightness mag 5.93G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 18071 · HIP 13479

4,646 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
46.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
46.05×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.