K-type star · orange

HR 2396

HR 2396 is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 775 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,264 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 219× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 775 years ago.

775 lybrightness mag 5.88K0III

Also catalogued as HD 46509 · HIP 31946

4,264 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
219× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
775 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
219×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 2396K-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 207863 ly
Star36 Cam100 ly
StarHR 2363110 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.