K-type star · orange
HR 461
HR 461 is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 1,744 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,970 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,501× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,744 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 9900 · HIP 7617
3,970 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
1,501× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,744 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
1,501×
the Sun's light output
-3.09
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.