G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 2998
HR 2998 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Puppis 80.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,388 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 80 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 62644 · HIP 37606 · Gliese Gl 284
5,388 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
5.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
80 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
5.11×
the Sun's light output
3.08
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.