K-type star · orange

Izar

Izar is an orange in the constellation Boötes 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,826 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 386× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 2.35A0

Also catalogued as Epsilon Boo · HR 5505 · HD 129988 · HIP 72105

4,826 K
temperature
2.35
apparent magnitude
386× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
386×
the Sun's light output
-1.62
absolute magnitude
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IzarK-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
StarHR 533331 ly
Star26 Boo32 ly
StarHR 554138 ly
StarMuphridstar
StarSeginusstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Boötes
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.