K-type star · orange
HR 2019
HR 2019 is an orange in the constellation Orion 581 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,015 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 114× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 581 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 39051 · HIP 27560
4,015 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
114× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
581 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
114×
the Sun's light output
-0.29
absolute magnitude
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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.