G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 1294

77.1 lybrightness mag 6.37G3V

Also catalogued as HD 26491 · HIP 19233 · Gliese Gl 162.1

5,830 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

1.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

77 years

at light speed from Earth

1.01×

as hot as the Sun

1.38×

the Sun's light output

4.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1294G-type

Sky regionReticulumthis direction

Nearest stars

Kap Ret →8.5 ly apart
HR 1405 →17 ly apart
Eps Ret →19 ly apart
HR 2102 →19 ly apart
Gam Dor →19 ly apart
Alp Hyi →20 ly apart

Bright stars in Reticulum

Rhombus →mag 3.3
Bet Ret →mag 3.8
Eps Ret →mag 4.4
Gam Ret →mag 4.5
Del Ret →mag 4.6
Kap Ret →mag 4.7
Iot Ret →mag 5.0
Zet2Ret →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.