K-type star · orange

HR 454

HR 454 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 513 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,237 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.32× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 513 years ago.

513 lybrightness mag 6.20K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 9746 · HIP 7493

4,237 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
71.32× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
513 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
71.32×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 454K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 46532 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.