M-type star · red

34 Boo

34 Boo is a red in the constellation Boötes 704 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,552 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 488× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 704 years ago.

704 lybrightness mag 4.80M3III

Also catalogued as HR 5490 · HD 129712 · HIP 71995

3,552 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
488× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
704 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
488×
the Sun's light output
-1.87
absolute magnitude
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34 BooM-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
StarHD 12600997 ly
StarHR 5674110 ly
StarHR 5592110 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.