K-type star · orange

HR 1540

485 lybrightness mag 6.46K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 30610 · HIP 22081

4,565 K

temperature

6.46

apparent magnitude

50.26× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0/K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

485 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

50.26×

the Sun's light output

0.60

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1540K-type

Sky regionDoradothis direction

Nearest stars

The Ret →35 ly apart
The Dor →43 ly apart
Gam Ret →46 ly apart
Lam Dor →61 ly apart
Del Ret →64 ly apart
Mu Men →66 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.