K-type star · orange
HR 2070
HR 2070 is an orange in the constellation Orion 316 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,362 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 316 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 39910 · HIP 28011
4,362 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
36.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
316 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
36.78×
the Sun's light output
0.94
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.