K-type star · orange

HR 2862

HR 2862 is an orange in the constellation Carina 605 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,653 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 276× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 605 years ago.

605 lybrightness mag 5.09K0III

Also catalogued as HD 59219 · HIP 36114

4,653 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
276× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
605 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
276×
the Sun's light output
-1.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 2862K-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.