K-type star · orange

HR 2086

HR 2086 is an orange in the constellation Lepus 289 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,500 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 289 years ago.

289 lybrightness mag 5.95K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 40151 · HIP 28085

4,500 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
28.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
289 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
28.52×
the Sun's light output
1.21
absolute magnitude
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HR 2086K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lepus

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.