K-type star · orange

HR 2737

HR 2737 is an orange in the constellation Lynx 598 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,196 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 125× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 598 years ago.

598 lybrightness mag 5.93K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 55866 · HIP 35304

4,196 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
125× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
598 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
125×
the Sun's light output
-0.39
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.