K-type star · orange
HR 1927
HR 1927 is an orange in the constellation Pictor 506 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,391 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 506 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 37434 · HIP 26300
4,391 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
76.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
506 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
76.00×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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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.