K-type star · orange

HR 416

HR 416 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 815 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,230 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 147× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 815 years ago.

815 lybrightness mag 6.42K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 8779 · HIP 6717

4,230 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
147× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
815 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
147×
the Sun's light output
-0.57
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.