K-type star · orange

HR 2708

HR 2708 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 706 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,748 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 267× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 706 years ago.

706 lybrightness mag 5.46G8III

Also catalogued as HD 55070 · HIP 34624

4,748 K

temperature

5.46

apparent magnitude

267× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

706 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

267×

the Sun's light output

-1.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 2708K-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.