K-type star · orange

HR 958

HR 958 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 753 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,716 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 280× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 753 years ago.

753 lybrightness mag 5.55K1IIIpe+...

Also catalogued as HD 19926 · HIP 14915

4,716 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
280× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIIpe+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
753 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
280×
the Sun's light output
-1.27
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.