K-type star · orange

HR 2416

HR 2416 is an orange in the constellation Carina 600 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,541 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 600 years ago.

600 lybrightness mag 6.18G8III

Also catalogued as HD 47001 · HIP 31265

4,541 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
99.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
600 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
99.27×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.