K-type star · orange

HR 9053

HR 9053 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 1,418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,368 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 649× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,418 years ago.

1,418 lybrightness mag 6.01G8Ib

Also catalogued as HD 224165 · HIP 117956

4,368 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
649× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,418 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
649×
the Sun's light output
-2.18
absolute magnitude
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HR 9053K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.