K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1168

HR 1168 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Reticulum 249 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,660 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 249 years ago.

249 lybrightness mag 6.29K1III

Also catalogued as HD 23697 · HIP 17464

4,660 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
15.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
249 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
15.42×
the Sun's light output
1.88
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Reticulum

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.