K-type star · orange

HR 1987

HR 1987 is an orange in the constellation Orion 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,029 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 5.78G8III

Also catalogued as HD 38527 · HIP 27280

5,029 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
35.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
35.42×
the Sun's light output
0.98
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.