K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 1492

178 lybrightness mag 5.59M8e

Also catalogued as HD 29712 · HIP 21479

3,794 K

temperature

5.59

apparent magnitude

15.09× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M8e

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

178 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

15.09×

the Sun's light output

1.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1492K-type

Sky regionDoradothis direction

Nearest stars

Rhombus →18 ly apart
Alp Dor →23 ly apart
HR 1014 →30 ly apart
HR 1245 →32 ly apart
HR 1912 →32 ly apart
Gam Pic →34 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
The Dor →mag 4.8
Eta2Dor →mag 5.0
Nu Dor →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.