K-type star · orange

HR 306

HR 306 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 349 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,485 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 349 years ago.

349 lybrightness mag 6.20K2III:

Also catalogued as HD 6319 · HIP 5928

4,485 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

32.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

349 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

32.99×

the Sun's light output

1.05

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.