K-type star · orange

HR 1263

HR 1263 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 504 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,183 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 504 years ago.

504 lybrightness mag 6.36K2/K3III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 25700 · HIP 18990

4,183 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
59.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
504 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
59.43×
the Sun's light output
0.41
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.