K-type star · orange
HR 263
HR 263 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 602 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,764 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 132× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 602 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 5384 · HIP 4346
3,764 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
132× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
602 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
132×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
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.