K-type star · orange

HR 1169

HR 1169 is an orange in the constellation Horologium 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,838 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 338 years ago.

338 lybrightness mag 5.72K1III

Also catalogued as HD 23719 · HIP 17534

4,838 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
48.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
48.08×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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HR 1169K-type
Sky regionHorologiumthis direction
StarHR 121616 ly
StarHR 109033 ly
StarHR 122738 ly
StarAlpha Horstar
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Bright stars in Horologium
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Horologium

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.