K-type star · orange

HR 2523

HR 2523 is an orange in the constellation Carina 824 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,069 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 388× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 824 years ago.

824 lybrightness mag 5.39K1II/IIIp+G:

Also catalogued as HD 49689 · HIP 32494

4,069 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
388× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II/IIIp+G:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
824 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
388×
the Sun's light output
-1.62
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.