K-type star · orange

HR 320

HR 320 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,567 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 6.12K1III

Also catalogued as HD 6559 · HIP 5170

4,567 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
42.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
42.78×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.