K-type star · orange

HR 3002

HR 3002 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 217 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,506 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 217 years ago.

217 lybrightness mag 5.12K1III

Also catalogued as HD 62713 · HIP 37664

4,506 K
temperature
5.12
apparent magnitude
34.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
217 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
34.51×
the Sun's light output
1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 3002K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 274826 ly
StarSigma Pup27 ly
StarHR 328628 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.