K-type star · orange

HR 2053

HR 2053 is an orange in the constellation Columba 322 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,635 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 322 years ago.

322 lybrightness mag 5.62K1III

Also catalogued as HD 39720 · HIP 27766

4,635 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
47.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
322 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
47.95×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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HR 2053K-type
Sky regionColumbathis direction
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Bright stars in Columba
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.