M-type star · red

HR 1908

HR 1908 is a red in the constellation Orion 822 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,660 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 226× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 822 years ago.

822 lybrightness mag 5.97K4II SB

Also catalogued as HD 37171 · HIP 26386

3,660 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
226× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4II SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
822 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
226×
the Sun's light output
-1.04
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.