K-type star · orange

HR 1979

HR 1979 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 588 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,027 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 588 years ago.

588 lybrightness mag 6.30K0

Also catalogued as HD 38358 · HIP 27319

4,027 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
85.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
588 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
85.43×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.