K-type star · orange

HR 1310

HR 1310 is an orange in the constellation Taurus 324 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,424 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 324 years ago.

324 lybrightness mag 6.25K0

Also catalogued as HD 26703 · HIP 19736

4,424 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
27.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
324 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
27.21×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.