K-type star · orange

HD 22379

HD 22379 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 628 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,534 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 628 years ago.

628 lybrightness mag 6.49K0

Also catalogued as HIP 16779

4,534 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
81.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
628 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
81.96×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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HD 22379K-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.