K-type star · orange

HR 2554

HR 2554 is an orange in the constellation Carina 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,999 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 418× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 544 years ago.

545 lybrightness mag 4.41G6II

Also catalogued as HD 50337 · HIP 32761

4,999 K
temperature
4.41
apparent magnitude
418× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
544 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
418×
the Sun's light output
-1.70
absolute magnitude
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HR 2554K-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To 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.