G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 209
HR 209 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Phoenix 49.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,834 K, and it shines at 0.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 49 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 4391 · HIP 3583 · Gliese GJ 1021
5,834 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
0.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
49 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
0.96×
the Sun's light output
4.90
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.