K-type star · orange

HR 1521

HR 1521 is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 712 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,830 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 214× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 712 years ago.

712 lybrightness mag 5.72K4III

Also catalogued as HD 30238 · HIP 22086

3,830 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
214× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
712 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
214×
the Sun's light output
-0.98
absolute magnitude
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HR 1521K-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.