K-type star · orange

HR 2834

HR 2834 is an orange in the constellation Canis Major 660 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,578 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 258× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 660 years ago.

660 lybrightness mag 5.35K1III

Also catalogued as HD 58535 · HIP 35957

4,578 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
258× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
660 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
258×
the Sun's light output
-1.18
absolute magnitude
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HR 2834K-type
Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.