K-type star · orange

HR 1626

HR 1626 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 590 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,293 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 590 years ago.

590 lybrightness mag 6.14K0II-III

Also catalogued as HD 32406 · HIP 23583

4,293 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
99.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
590 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
99.63×
the Sun's light output
-0.15
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.