K-type star · orange
HR 299
HR 299 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 238 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,996 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 238 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 6245 · HIP 4890
4,996 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
32.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
238 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
32.51×
the Sun's light output
1.07
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.