K-type star · orange

HR 2080

HR 2080 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,315 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 307 years ago.

307 lybrightness mag 6.14K2III

Also catalogued as HD 40083 · HIP 28390

4,315 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
27.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
307 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
27.01×
the Sun's light output
1.27
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.