K-type star · orange

HR 1824

HR 1824 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 420 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,489 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 420 years ago.

420 lybrightness mag 5.99K0IIIp

Also catalogued as HD 36040 · HIP 25816

4,489 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
58.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
420 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
58.13×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 1824K-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 215352 ly
StarSigma Aur57 ly
StarHR 185458 ly
StarMenkalinanstar
StarMahasimstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Auriga
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.