K-type star · orange

HR 2450

HR 2450 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 988 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,856 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 944× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 988 years ago.

988 lybrightness mag 4.82K2III

Also catalogued as HD 47667 · HIP 31827

3,856 K

temperature

4.82

apparent magnitude

944× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

988 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

944×

the Sun's light output

-2.59

absolute magnitude

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HR 2450K-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.