K-type star · orange

HR 923

HR 923 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 406 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,716 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 406 years ago.

406 lybrightness mag 6.06K0III

Also catalogued as HD 19066 · HIP 14365

4,716 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
50.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
406 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
50.86×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.