K-type star · orange dwarf

Hoggar

Hoggar is an orange dwarf in the constellation Taurus 740 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,724 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 8.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 740 years ago.

740 lybrightness mag 8.38K0

Also catalogued as HD 28678 · HIP 21109

4,724 K
temperature
8.38
apparent magnitude
19.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
740 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
19.92×
the Sun's light output
1.60
absolute magnitude
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HoggarK-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
StarHD 2808634 ly
StarHR 153476 ly
StarHR 148880 ly
StarElnathstar
StarAlcyonestar
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Brightness mag 8.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.