K-type star · orange

HR 171

HR 171 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,426 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 307 years ago.

307 lybrightness mag 6.00K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 3750 · HIP 3137

4,426 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
30.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
307 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
30.73×
the Sun's light output
1.13
absolute magnitude
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HR 171K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.