M-type star · red

HD 1879

1,102 lybrightness mag 6.43M0III

Also catalogued as HIP 1821

3,656 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

266× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,102 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

266×

the Sun's light output

-1.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 1879M-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 85 →230 ly apart
HR 9058 →260 ly apart
HD 3605 →270 ly apart
HR 42 →290 ly apart
HR 268 →290 ly apart
HR 43 →300 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.