K-type star · orange

HR 2899

HR 2899 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 273 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,470 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 273 years ago.

273 lybrightness mag 5.64K0III

Also catalogued as HD 60341 · HIP 36732

4,470 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
33.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
273 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
33.76×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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HR 2899K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.