K-type star · orange

HR 1098

HR 1098 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 378 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,957 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 378 years ago.

378 lybrightness mag 5.56G7III:

Also catalogued as HD 22409 · HIP 16780

4,957 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

69.82× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G7III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

378 years

at light speed from Earth

0.86×

as hot as the Sun

69.82×

the Sun's light output

0.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 1098K-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.