K-type star · orange

HR 1775

HR 1775 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 626 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,211 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 626 years ago.

626 lybrightness mag 6.30K1III...

Also catalogued as HD 35238 · HIP 25290

4,211 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
96.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
626 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
96.92×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.