K-type star · orange

3 Per

3 Per is an orange in the constellation Perseus 245 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,731 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 245 years ago.

245 lybrightness mag 5.70K0IV

Also catalogued as HR 568 · HD 11949 · HIP 9222

4,731 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
25.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
245 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
25.73×
the Sun's light output
1.32
absolute magnitude
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3 PerK-type
Sky regionPerseusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.