K-type star · orange

HR 2009

HR 2009 is an orange in the constellation Columba 530 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,326 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 530 years ago.

530 lybrightness mag 6.29K1III

Also catalogued as HD 38885 · HIP 27325

4,326 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
70.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
530 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
70.21×
the Sun's light output
0.23
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.