K-type star · orange

HR 2082

HR 2082 is an orange in the constellation Columba 506 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,771 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 127× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 506 years ago.

506 lybrightness mag 5.55M0III

Also catalogued as HD 40091 · HIP 27955

3,771 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
127× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
506 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
127×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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HR 2082K-type
Sky regionColumbathis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Columba
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.