K-type star · orange
HR 300
HR 300 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,912 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 424 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 6269 · HIP 4932
4,912 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
45.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
424 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
45.29×
the Sun's light output
0.71
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.