K-type star · orange

HR 156

HR 156 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,368 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 368 years ago.

368 lybrightness mag 6.18K2III

Also catalogued as HD 3411 · HIP 2926

4,368 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
37.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
37.33×
the Sun's light output
0.92
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.