K-type star · orange
HR 1416
HR 1416 is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 701 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,745 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 701 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 28413 · HIP 20619
3,745 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
170× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4/K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
701 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
170×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
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.