K-type star · orange

HD 26584

HD 26584 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,866 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 517 years ago.

517 lybrightness mag 6.45G5

Also catalogued as HIP 19590

4,866 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
57.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
517 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
57.54×
the Sun's light output
0.45
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.