K-type star · orange
HD 44061
HD 44061 is an orange in the constellation Lynx 498 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,570 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 498 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 30357
4,570 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
52.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
498 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
52.43×
the Sun's light output
0.55
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.