K-type star · orange

HR 1236

HR 1236 is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,528 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 338 years ago.

338 lybrightness mag 6.14K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HD 25170 · HIP 18401

4,528 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

32.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1/K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

338 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

32.66×

the Sun's light output

1.06

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Reticulum

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.