K-type star · orange

63 Ori

63 Ori is an orange in the constellation Orion 1,310 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,633 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 758× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,310 years ago.

1,310 lybrightness mag 5.67G7III:

Also catalogued as HR 2144 · HD 41361 · HIP 28812

4,633 K

temperature

5.67

apparent magnitude

758× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G7III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,310 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

758×

the Sun's light output

-2.35

absolute magnitude

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63 OriK-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.