K-type star · orange
HD 219823
HD 219823 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 817 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,742 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 139× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 817 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 115121
3,742 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
139× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
817 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
139×
the Sun's light output
-0.51
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.