K-type star · orange

The Dor

491 lybrightness mag 4.81K2III

Also catalogued as HR 1744 · HD 34649 · HIP 24372

4,168 K

temperature

4.81

apparent magnitude

235× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

491 years

at light speed from Earth

0.72×

as hot as the Sun

235×

the Sun's light output

-1.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The DorK-type

Sky regionDoradothis direction

Nearest stars

Mu Men →40 ly apart
HR 1540 →43 ly apart
Lam Men →64 ly apart
The Ret →66 ly apart
HR 1700 →70 ly apart
Lam Dor →77 ly apart

Bright stars in Dorado

Alp Dor →mag 3.3
Bet Dor →mag 3.8
Gam Dor →mag 4.3
Del Dor →mag 4.3
Zet Dor →mag 4.7
Eta2Dor →mag 5.0
Nu Dor →mag 5.1
Eps Dor →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.