K-type star · orange

HR 1425

HR 1425 is an orange in the constellation Taurus 390 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,653 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 390 years ago.

390 lybrightness mag 6.47G8III

Also catalogued as HD 28505 · HIP 20985

4,653 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
32.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
390 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
32.09×
the Sun's light output
1.08
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.