K-type star · orange

HR 1979

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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HR 1979K-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 202543 ly
StarHR 182544 ly
StarHR 172259 ly
StarMenkalinanstar
StarMahasimstar
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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.