K-type star · orange

HR 1523

HR 1523 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 384 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,114 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 384 years ago.

384 lybrightness mag 5.09K3III

Also catalogued as HD 30338 · HIP 23265

4,114 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
384 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.27
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.