K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1517

HR 1517 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Taurus 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,268 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 5.99K4III

Also catalogued as HD 30197 · HIP 22176

4,268 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
22.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
22.51×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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HR 1517K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.