K-type star · orange

HR 2049

HR 2049 is an orange in the constellation Pictor 256 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,841 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 256 years ago.

256 lybrightness mag 5.16G8III

Also catalogued as HD 39640 · HIP 27621

4,841 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
46.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
256 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
46.47×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 2049K-type
Sky regionPictorthis direction
StarHR 198436 ly
StarHR 213844 ly
StarNosaxa46 ly
StarAlpha Picstar
StarGamma Picstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pictor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.