K-type star · orange

HR 2196

HR 2196 is an orange in the constellation Pictor 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,202 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 103× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 5.04K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 42540 · HIP 28991

4,202 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
103× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
103×
the Sun's light output
-0.18
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.