K-type star · orange dwarf
Intan
Intan is an orange dwarf in the constellation Fornax 151 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,656 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 9.9 it is within reach of 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescope; the light you see left it 151 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 20868 · HIP 15578
4,656 K
temperature
9.92
apparent magnitude
0.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3/K4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
151 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
0.20×
the Sun's light output
6.60
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.