K-type star · orange

HR 2

HR 2 is an orange in the constellation Pisces 453 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,517 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 453 years ago.

453 lybrightness mag 6.32G9III:

Also catalogued as HD 6 · HIP 417

4,517 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
49.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
453 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
49.80×
the Sun's light output
0.61
absolute magnitude
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HR 2K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pisces

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.