K-type star · orange

HR 1293

HR 1293 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 286 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,610 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 286 years ago.

286 lybrightness mag 5.70G9III:

Also catalogued as HD 26464 · HIP 19511

4,610 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
35.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
286 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
35.16×
the Sun's light output
0.98
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.