K-type star · orange

HR 102

HR 102 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 574 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 108× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 574 years ago.

574 lybrightness mag 5.99K0III

Also catalogued as HD 2363 · HIP 2159

4,691 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
108× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
574 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
108×
the Sun's light output
-0.24
absolute magnitude
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HR 102K-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 13855 ly
StarHR 24761 ly
StarHR 6164 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.