K-type star · orange dwarf
HR 1529
HR 1529 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Auriga 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,447 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 30454 · HIP 22393
4,447 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
22.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
22.33×
the Sun's light output
1.48
absolute magnitude
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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.