K-type star · orange

Sceptrum

Sceptrum is an orange in the constellation Eridanus 110 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,554 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 110 years ago.

110 lybrightness mag 3.86K1III

Also catalogued as 53 Eri · HR 1481 · HD 29503 · HIP 21594 · Gliese GJ 9160A

4,554 K
temperature
3.86
apparent magnitude
28.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
110 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
28.24×
the Sun's light output
1.22
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
SceptrumK-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
StarHR 15455.5 ly
StarHR 166518 ly
StarBeid23 ly
StarCursastar
StarAcamarstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Eridanus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To 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.