K-type star · orange

HR 1870

548 lybrightness mag 5.86K3III

Also catalogued as HD 36734 · HIP 25887

4,036 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

111× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

548 years

at light speed from Earth

0.70×

as hot as the Sun

111×

the Sun's light output

-0.27

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1870K-type

Sky regionPictorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1927 →45 ly apart
HD 37781 →64 ly apart
The Pic →70 ly apart
HR 1813 →78 ly apart
HR 2082 →79 ly apart
HR 2008 →82 ly apart

Bright stars in Pictor

Alp Pic →mag 3.2
Gam Pic →mag 4.5
Del Pic →mag 4.7
Eta2Pic →mag 5.0
Lam Pic →mag 5.3
Eta1Pic →mag 5.4
Zet Pic →mag 5.4
Iot Pic →mag 5.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.