K-type star · orange
HR 272
HR 272 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 437 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,677 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 437 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 5526 · HIP 4501
4,677 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
56.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
437 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
56.81×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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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.