K-type star · orange
HR 2920
HR 2920 is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 740 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,733 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 139× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 740 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 60853 · HIP 37000
3,733 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
139× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
740 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
139×
the Sun's light output
-0.51
absolute magnitude
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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.