K-type star · orange

HR 1461

HR 1461 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,360 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 6.12K2IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 29184 · HIP 21363

4,360 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
36.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
36.68×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.