K-type star · orange

HR 2723

HR 2723 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 660 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,782 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 176× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 660 years ago.

660 lybrightness mag 5.77K0

Also catalogued as HD 55589 · HIP 34888

3,782 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
176× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
660 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
176×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 2723K-type
Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.