K-type star · orange

HR 1755

HR 1755 is an orange in the constellation Taurus 550 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,253 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 550 years ago.

550 lybrightness mag 6.20K0III

Also catalogued as HD 34810 · HIP 24977

4,253 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
82.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
550 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
82.04×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.