M-type star · red

HR 1720

HR 1720 is a red in the constellation Camelopardalis 2,051 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,480 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,911× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,051 years ago.

2,051 lybrightness mag 5.64K4Iab:

Also catalogued as HD 34255 · HIP 24914

3,480 K

temperature

5.64

apparent magnitude

1,911× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4Iab:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,051 years

at light speed from Earth

0.60×

as hot as the Sun

1,911×

the Sun's light output

-3.35

absolute magnitude

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HR 1720M-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.