K-type star · orange

HR 1874

HR 1874 is an orange in the constellation Orion 684 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,742 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 164× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 684 years ago.

684 lybrightness mag 5.92K5III

Also catalogued as HD 36780 · HIP 26108

3,742 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
164× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
684 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
164×
the Sun's light output
-0.69
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.