K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 212

HR 212 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cassiopeia 200 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,719 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 200 years ago.

200 lybrightness mag 5.86K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 4440 · HIP 3750

4,719 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

14.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

200 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

14.79×

the Sun's light output

1.93

absolute magnitude

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HR 212K-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

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Bright stars in Cassiopeia

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cassiopeia

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.