K-type star · orange

HR 1916

HR 1916 is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 273 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,215 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 273 years ago.

273 lybrightness mag 5.62K5III

Also catalogued as HD 37289 · HIP 26882

4,215 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
34.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
273 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
34.39×
the Sun's light output
1.01
absolute magnitude
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HR 1916K-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 185320 ly
Star14 Cam25 ly
StarHR 229156 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.