K-type star · orange dwarf

p Eridani

p Eridani is an orange dwarf in the constellation Eridanus 26.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,106 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 27 years ago.

26.6 lybrightness mag 5.80K2 V

Also catalogued as HR 487 · HD 10361 · Gliese Gl 66A

5,106 K

temperature

5.80

apparent magnitude

0.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2 V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

27 years

at light speed from Earth

0.88×

as hot as the Sun

0.28×

the Sun's light output

6.25

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.