K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1085

HR 1085 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Taurus 132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,021 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 132 years ago.

132 lybrightness mag 6.14K1IVe...

Also catalogued as HD 22072 · HIP 16641

5,021 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
4.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IVe...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
132 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
4.97×
the Sun's light output
3.11
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.