K-type star · orange

HR 2051

HR 2051 is an orange in the constellation Orion 458 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,152 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 458 years ago.

458 lybrightness mag 6.30K0

Also catalogued as HD 39685 · HIP 27902

4,152 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
51.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
458 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
51.90×
the Sun's light output
0.56
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.