K-type star · orange

HR 1421

HR 1421 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 308 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,280 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 308 years ago.

308 lybrightness mag 5.95K2III

Also catalogued as HD 28479 · HIP 20892

4,280 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
32.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
308 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
32.45×
the Sun's light output
1.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.