K-type star · orange

HR 2260

HR 2260 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 619 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,134 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 273× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 619 years ago.

619 lybrightness mag 5.15K1III

Also catalogued as HD 43827 · HIP 29895

4,134 K

temperature

5.15

apparent magnitude

273× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

619 years

at light speed from Earth

0.72×

as hot as the Sun

273×

the Sun's light output

-1.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 2260K-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.