K-type star · orange

HR 929

HR 929 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 847 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,114 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 279× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 847 years ago.

847 lybrightness mag 5.81K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 19141 · HIP 14187

4,114 K
temperature
5.81
apparent magnitude
279× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
847 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
279×
the Sun's light output
-1.26
absolute magnitude
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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.