K-type star · orange
HR 2462
HR 2462 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 477 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,750 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 178× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 477 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 47973 · HIP 31765
4,750 K
temperature
5.05
apparent magnitude
178× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
477 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
178×
the Sun's light output
-0.78
absolute magnitude
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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.