K-type star · orange

HR 886

HR 886 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 648 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,878 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 152× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 648 years ago.

648 lybrightness mag 5.89K2

Also catalogued as HD 18482 · HIP 13949

3,878 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
152× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
648 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
152×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.