G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 1455

HR 1455 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Taurus 437 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,423 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 437 years ago.

437 lybrightness mag 6.33G5II-III+..

Also catalogued as HD 29104 · HIP 21408

5,423 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
45.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II-III+..
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
437 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
45.84×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.