M-type star · red
Zaurak
Zaurak is a red in the constellation Eridanus 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,666 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 220× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Eri · HR 1231 · HD 25025 · HIP 18543
3,666 K
temperature
2.97
apparent magnitude
220× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1IIIb Ca-1
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
220×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
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.