K-type star · orange

HR 1881

HR 1881 is an orange in the constellation Columba 257 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,548 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 257 years ago.

257 lybrightness mag 5.75K0III

Also catalogued as HD 36874 · HIP 26019

4,548 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
27.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
257 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
27.19×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 1881K-type
Sky regionColumbathis direction
StarEpsilon Col6.3 ly
StarPhact8.7 ly
StarHR 183531 ly
StarWaznstar
StarDelta Colstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Columba
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.