K-type star · orange
HR 160
HR 160 is an orange in the constellation Tucana 691 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,194 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 691 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 3444 · HIP 2889
4,194 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
691 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.20
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.