K-type star · orange

3 Dra

3 Dra is an orange in the constellation Draco 602 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,181 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 221× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 602 years ago.

602 lybrightness mag 5.32K3III

Also catalogued as HR 4504 · HD 101673 · HIP 57111

4,181 K

temperature

5.32

apparent magnitude

221× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

602 years

at light speed from Earth

0.72×

as hot as the Sun

221×

the Sun's light output

-1.01

absolute magnitude

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3 DraK-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

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Bright stars in Draco

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.