K-type star · orange

HR 1226

HR 1226 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 425 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,556 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 425 years ago.

425 lybrightness mag 6.32K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 24843 · HIP 18565

4,556 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
43.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
425 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
43.77×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Perseus

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.