K-type star · orange

HR 2359

HR 2359 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,476 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 456 years ago.

456 lybrightness mag 5.76K0III

Also catalogued as HD 45765 · HIP 30836

4,476 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
84.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
456 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
84.57×
the Sun's light output
0.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.