M-type star · red

HR 2703

HR 2703 is a red in the constellation Lynx 723 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,594 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 280× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 723 years ago.

723 lybrightness mag 5.46M3III

Also catalogued as HD 54895 · HIP 34912

3,594 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
280× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
723 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
280×
the Sun's light output
-1.27
absolute magnitude
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HR 2703M-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.