K-type star · orange
Solitaire
Solitaire is an orange in the constellation Hydra 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,007 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 153× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 331 years ago.
Also catalogued as 58 Hya · HR 5526 · HD 130694 · HIP 72571
4,007 K
temperature
4.42
apparent magnitude
153× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
331 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
153×
the Sun's light output
-0.61
absolute magnitude
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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.