K-type star · orange

HR 452

HR 452 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 392 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 392 years ago.

392 lybrightness mag 6.39K1III

Also catalogued as HD 9712 · HIP 7444

4,468 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
34.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
392 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
34.90×
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.