K-type star · orange dwarf

Mouhoun

Mouhoun is an orange dwarf in the constellation Eridanus 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,838 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 7.9 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 385 years ago.

385 lybrightness mag 7.91K0III

Also catalogued as HD 30856 · HIP 22491

4,838 K
temperature
7.91
apparent magnitude
8.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
8.33×
the Sun's light output
2.55
absolute magnitude
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MouhounK-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
StarHD 2916329 ly
StarHR 149538 ly
Star54 Eri38 ly
StarCursastar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 7.9To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.