K-type star · orange

HR 2822

HR 2822 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 617 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,736 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 221× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 617 years ago.

617 lybrightness mag 5.37K4III

Also catalogued as HD 58215 · HIP 35848

3,736 K

temperature

5.37

apparent magnitude

221× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

617 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

221×

the Sun's light output

-1.01

absolute magnitude

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HR 2822K-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.