G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 1219
HR 1219 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Eridanus 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,971 K, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 24744 · HIP 18262
5,971 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.