K-type star · orange

HR 9096

HR 9096 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 664 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,356 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 664 years ago.

664 lybrightness mag 6.46K1III

Also catalogued as HD 225069 · HIP 253

4,356 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
94.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
664 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
94.19×
the Sun's light output
-0.09
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.