K-type star · orange

HR 2563

HR 2563 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 677 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,295 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 101× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 677 years ago.

677 lybrightness mag 6.42K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 50621 · HIP 32918

4,295 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
101× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
677 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
101×
the Sun's light output
-0.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 2563K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.