K-type star · orange
HR 2024
HR 2024 is an orange in the constellation Orion 1,032 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,858 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 357× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,032 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 39118 · HIP 27588
4,858 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
357× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,032 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
357×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
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.