K-type star · orange

HR 122

HR 122 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 379 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,445 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 379 years ago.

379 lybrightness mag 5.88K1III...

Also catalogued as HD 2767 · HIP 2475

4,445 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
52.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
379 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
52.24×
the Sun's light output
0.56
absolute magnitude
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HR 122K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
Star32 And46 ly
StarHR 24946 ly
StarHR 4448 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.