K-type star · orange

HR 2379

HR 2379 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,191 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 5.16K1III

Also catalogued as HD 46184 · HIP 31084

4,191 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
94.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
94.89×
the Sun's light output
-0.09
absolute magnitude
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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.