K-type star · orange

HR 150

HR 150 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,596 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 6.45K0III

Also catalogued as HD 3325 · HIP 2846

4,596 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
30.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
30.48×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.