K-type star · orange dwarf

HD 79091

300 lybrightness mag 6.19K1III

Also catalogued as HIP 45002

4,688 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
24.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
300 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
24.59×
the Sun's light output
1.37
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.