K-type star · orange

HR 918

HR 918 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,700 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 211 years ago.

211 lybrightness mag 4.77K0II-III

Also catalogued as HD 18970 · HIP 14382

4,700 K

temperature

4.77

apparent magnitude

45.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0II-III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

211 years

at light speed from Earth

0.81×

as hot as the Sun

45.08×

the Sun's light output

0.71

absolute magnitude

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HR 918K-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.