K-type star · orange

HR 436

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 436K-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 8896 →43 ly apart
HR 300 →58 ly apart
HR 606 →70 ly apart
HR 576 →75 ly apart
HR 532 →75 ly apart
HR 320 →80 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

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.