K-type star · orange

HR 2178

HR 2178 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,385 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 368 years ago.

368 lybrightness mag 6.48K1III

Also catalogued as HD 42168 · HIP 28988

4,385 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

28.31× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

368 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

28.31×

the Sun's light output

1.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 2178K-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.