K-type star · orange

HD 40568

HD 40568 is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 666 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,858 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 666 years ago.

666 lybrightness mag 6.50G5

Also catalogued as HIP 28656

4,858 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
91.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
666 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
91.12×
the Sun's light output
-0.05
absolute magnitude
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HD 40568K-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star5 Lyn56 ly
Star1 Lyn62 ly
Star11 Cam94 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Camelopardalis

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.