K-type star · orange
HD 19549
HD 19549 is an orange in the constellation Aries 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,230 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 491 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 14649
4,230 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
53.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
491 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
53.90×
the Sun's light output
0.52
absolute magnitude
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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.