K-type star · orange

HR 436

HR 436 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,074 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 450 years ago.

450 lybrightness mag 5.92K2III

Also catalogued as HD 9228 · HIP 7016

4,074 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
70.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
70.99×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 436K-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHD 889643 ly
StarHR 30058 ly
StarHR 60670 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.