K-type star · orange

HR 9054

HR 9054 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 490 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,941 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 490 years ago.

490 lybrightness mag 6.31G8III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 224283 · HIP 118029

4,941 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
58.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
490 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
58.94×
the Sun's light output
0.42
absolute magnitude
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HR 9054K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.