K-type star · orange

HR 109

HR 109 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,711 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 5.42M0III

Also catalogued as HD 2490 · HIP 2240

3,711 K
temperature
5.42
apparent magnitude
78.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
78.49×
the Sun's light output
0.11
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.