K-type star · orange

HR 9037

HR 9037 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 282 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,209 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 282 years ago.

282 lybrightness mag 5.85K2III

Also catalogued as HD 223774 · HIP 117722

4,209 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
29.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
282 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
29.68×
the Sun's light output
1.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 9037K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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Bright stars in Aquarius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.