K-type star · orange

HR 1439

HR 1439 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,731 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 393 years ago.

393 lybrightness mag 5.95K0II

Also catalogued as HD 28776 · HIP 21042

4,731 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
52.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
393 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
52.72×
the Sun's light output
0.55
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.