K-type star · orange

Shimu

Shimu is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 189 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,515 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 189 years ago.

189 lybrightness mag 4.08K1II

Also catalogued as Zeta And · HR 215 · HD 4502 · HIP 3693

4,515 K
temperature
4.08
apparent magnitude
68.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
189 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
68.36×
the Sun's light output
0.26
absolute magnitude
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ShimuK-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To 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.