K-type star · orange

HR 2941

HR 2941 is an orange in the constellation Carina 578 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,344 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 578 years ago.

578 lybrightness mag 6.39K1/K2IIICN.

Also catalogued as HD 61394 · HIP 36977

4,344 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
76.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1/K2IIICN.
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
578 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
76.14×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.