K-type star · orange

HR 227

HR 227 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 278 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,077 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 278 years ago.

278 lybrightness mag 5.59K3III

Also catalogued as HD 4730 · HIP 3849

4,077 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
36.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
278 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
36.64×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.