M-type star · red
HD 33162
HD 33162 is a red in the constellation Lepus 838 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,626 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 169× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 838 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 23874
3,626 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
169× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
838 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
169×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
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.