K-type star · orange

HR 2081

HR 2081 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 1,073 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,321 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 412× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,073 years ago.

1,073 lybrightness mag 5.90G5III

Also catalogued as HD 40084 · HIP 28343

4,321 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
412× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,073 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
412×
the Sun's light output
-1.69
absolute magnitude
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HR 2081K-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Auriga

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.