K-type star · orange

HR 1028

HR 1028 is an orange in the constellation Taurus 458 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,256 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 458 years ago.

458 lybrightness mag 6.03K0III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 21051 · HIP 15850

4,256 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
66.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
458 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
66.56×
the Sun's light output
0.29
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.