K-type star · orange

HR 1216

HR 1216 is an orange in the constellation Horologium 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,270 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 351 years ago.

351 lybrightness mag 5.93K3III

Also catalogued as HD 24706 · HIP 18199

4,270 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
42.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
42.85×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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HR 1216K-type
Sky regionHorologiumthis direction
StarHR 116916 ly
StarHR 122736 ly
StarHR 109048 ly
StarAlpha Horstar
StarDelta Horstar
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Bright stars in Horologium
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.