K-type star · orange

HR 1060

HR 1060 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 387 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,695 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 387 years ago.

387 lybrightness mag 6.01G5

Also catalogued as HD 21665 · HIP 16266

4,695 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
48.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
387 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
48.44×
the Sun's light output
0.64
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.