K-type star · orange

HR 2748

HR 2748 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 209 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,067 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 209 years ago.

209 lybrightness mag 4.42M5e

Also catalogued as HD 56096 · HIP 34922

4,067 K
temperature
4.42
apparent magnitude
60.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5e
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
209 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
60.98×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 2748K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarSigma Pup19 ly
StarHR 267222 ly
StarHR 274625 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.