K-type star · orange

HR 949

HR 949 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 620 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,910 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 620 years ago.

620 lybrightness mag 6.32K5III

Also catalogued as HD 19735 · HIP 14914

3,910 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
93.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
620 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
93.33×
the Sun's light output
-0.07
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.