K-type star · orange

HR 978

HR 978 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 439 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,772 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 439 years ago.

439 lybrightness mag 5.98G8IV

Also catalogued as HD 20277 · HIP 15241

4,772 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
63.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
439 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
63.97×
the Sun's light output
0.34
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.