K-type star · orange

HR 957

HR 957 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 540 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,375 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 540 years ago.

540 lybrightness mag 6.25K2III

Also catalogued as HD 19887 · HIP 14814

4,375 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
75.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
540 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
75.51×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.