K-type star · orange

HR 885

HR 885 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,081 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 138× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.

510 lybrightness mag 5.47G4p

Also catalogued as HD 18474 · HIP 13965

5,081 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 885K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.