G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 2251
HR 2251 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Orion 62.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,929 K, and it shines at 1.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 63 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 43587 · HIP 29860 · Gliese Gl 231.1A
5,929 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
1.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0.5Vb
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
63 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
1.69×
the Sun's light output
4.28
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.