K-type star · orange
HR 2747
HR 2747 is an orange in the constellation Canis Minor 543 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,739 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 543 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 56031 · HIP 35120
3,739 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
543 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
118×
the Sun's light output
-0.33
absolute magnitude
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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.