K-type star · orange
HR 2775
HR 2775 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 701 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,944 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 701 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 56941 · HIP 35623
3,944 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
701 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
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.