M-type star · red

Mirach

Mirach is a red in the constellation Andromeda 197 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,683 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 474× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 197 years ago.

197 lybrightness mag 2.07M0IIIvar

Also catalogued as Beta And · HR 337 · HD 6860 · HIP 5447 · Gliese Gl 53.3

3,683 K
temperature
2.07
apparent magnitude
474× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
197 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
474×
the Sun's light output
-1.84
absolute magnitude
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MirachM-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
Star47 And16 ly
StarHR 39616 ly
Star41 And29 ly
StarAlpheratzstar
StarAlmachstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.1To see it no equipment neededLook 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.