M-type star · red

HD 79456

935 lybrightness mag 6.38K5III

Also catalogued as HIP 45249

3,649 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

201× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

935 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

201×

the Sun's light output

-0.91

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 79456M-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

Alp Pyx →130 ly apart
HR 3770 →160 ly apart
HD 72913 →180 ly apart
HR 3343 →180 ly apart
HR 3533 →180 ly apart
HR 3513 →200 ly apart

Bright stars in Pyxis

Alp Pyx →mag 3.7
Bet Pyx →mag 4.0
Gam Pyx →mag 4.0
Kap Pyx →mag 4.6
The Pyx →mag 4.7
Lam Pyx →mag 4.7
Zet Pyx →mag 4.9
Del Pyx →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pyxis

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.