K-type star · orange

HR 1540

HR 1540 is an orange in the constellation Dorado 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,565 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 6.46K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 30610 · HIP 22081

4,565 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
50.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
50.26×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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HR 1540K-type
Sky regionDoradothis direction
StarTheta Ret35 ly
StarTheta Dor43 ly
StarGamma Ret46 ly
StarAlpha Dorstar
StarBeta Dorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Dorado
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Dorado

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.