K-type star · orange

HR 1526

HR 1526 is an orange in the constellation Caelum 317 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,592 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 317 years ago.

317 lybrightness mag 6.04K1III

Also catalogued as HD 30432 · HIP 22144

4,592 K

temperature

6.04

apparent magnitude

31.62× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

317 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

31.62×

the Sun's light output

1.10

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Caelum

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.