K-type star · orange

HR 387

HR 387 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 447 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,712 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 447 years ago.

447 lybrightness mag 6.26K1III

Also catalogued as HD 8120 · HIP 6283

4,712 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
51.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
447 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
51.33×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.