K-type star · orange
HD 90250
HD 90250 is an orange in the constellation Leo Minor 411 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,539 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 411 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 51047
4,539 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
35.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
411 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
35.12×
the Sun's light output
0.99
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.