K-type star · orange

HR 912

HR 912 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,532 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 330 years ago.

330 lybrightness mag 5.84G6III:

Also catalogued as HD 18885 · HIP 14110

4,532 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
41.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
41.08×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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HR 912K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.