G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 1489

HR 1489 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Perseus 104 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,995 K, and it shines at 3.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 104 years ago.

104 lybrightness mag 5.97G0V

Also catalogued as HD 29645 · HIP 21847

5,995 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
3.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
104 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
3.62×
the Sun's light output
3.45
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.