M-type star · red
HD 23712
HD 23712 is a red in the constellation Taurus 541 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,514 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 541 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 17759
3,514 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
63.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
541 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
63.56×
the Sun's light output
0.34
absolute magnitude
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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.