K-type star · orange
HD 215473
HD 215473 is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 777 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,797 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 128× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 777 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 112305
3,797 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
128× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
777 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
128×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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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.