K-type star · orange

HR 766

296 lybrightness mag 5.81K0III:

Also catalogued as HD 16247 · HIP 12148

4,649 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

34.01× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

296 years

at light speed from Earth

0.81×

as hot as the Sun

34.01×

the Sun's light output

1.02

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 766K-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 775 →40 ly apart
HR 732 →41 ly apart
HR 725 →41 ly apart
78Nu Cet →46 ly apart
HR 931 →52 ly apart
27 Ari →52 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.