K-type star · orange

HR 218

HR 218 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,121 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 5.70K3III

Also catalogued as HD 4585 · HIP 3717

4,121 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
54.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
54.25×
the Sun's light output
0.51
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.