K-type star · orange

HR 1831

HR 1831 is an orange in the constellation Taurus 357 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,348 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 357 years ago.

357 lybrightness mag 6.29K0

Also catalogued as HD 36160 · HIP 25806

4,348 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
31.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
357 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
31.86×
the Sun's light output
1.09
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.