K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1487

HR 1487 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Eridanus 196 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,617 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 196 years ago.

196 lybrightness mag 5.46K0III

Also catalogued as HD 29613 · HIP 21685

4,617 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
20.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
196 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
20.63×
the Sun's light output
1.56
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.