K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1877

HR 1877 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Columba 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,262 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 5.45K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 36848 · HIP 25993

4,262 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
16.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
172 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
16.05×
the Sun's light output
1.84
absolute magnitude
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HR 1877K-type
Sky regionColumbathis direction
StarHR 19816.8 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Columba
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.