Star TOI 1268

Orange star TOI 1268 is located 359 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class K1-K2, that has 96 % of solar mass. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

TOI 1268

Orange star (spectral class K1-K2)

Location

Right ascension: 13h 13m 33.41s

Declination: 62° 18' 19.61'' (northern hemisphere)

Parallax: 9.085

Sun distance: 359.005 ly | 110.1 pc

Basic characteristic

Mass: 96 % M Sun

Size: 92 % R Sun

Temperature: 5200 K | 0.9 T Sun

Age: 0.29 billions years | 0.06 Sun

Luminosity: 0.51 L Sun

1 exoplanet

TOI 1268 b

0.07 AU

92.2 M⊕

9.2 R⊕

8.2 days

Photometry

Apparent magnitude (V): 10.9

Absolute magnitude (V): 5.7

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

Absolute stellar magnitude in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared (K band) to ultraviolet (U band).

More about TOI 1268

Star TOI 1268 is approximately 90 % of the size of Sun and temperature on its surface is around 5200 K (4927 °C), which is about 90 % of Sun's temperature.

      TOI 1268 can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is easily observable from Northern America, Europe and Asia.

External sources

TESS database (TOI 1268.01)

Archive from the TESS mission

TOI-1268b: the youngest hot Saturn-mass transiting exoplanet

Scientific study, Submitted: 31. 01. 2022

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