K-type star · orange

6 CMi

572 lybrightness mag 4.55K2III

Also catalogued as HR 2864 · HD 59294 · HIP 36425

4,165 K
temperature
4.55
apparent magnitude
406× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
572 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
406×
the Sun's light output
-1.67
absolute magnitude
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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.