K-type star · orange

HR 2796

HR 2796 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 603 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,813 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 173× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 603 years ago.

603 lybrightness mag 5.59G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 57478 · HIP 35615

4,813 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
173× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
603 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
173×
the Sun's light output
-0.74
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.