K-type star · orange
HR 1317
HR 1317 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 968 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,350 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 521× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 968 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 26836 · HIP 20776
4,350 K
temperature
5.42
apparent magnitude
521× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
968 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
521×
the Sun's light output
-1.94
absolute magnitude
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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.