G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 448
HR 448 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cetus 96.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,819 K, and it shines at 3.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 96 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 9562 · HIP 7276
5,819 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
3.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
96 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
3.80×
the Sun's light output
3.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.