G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 3043
HR 3043 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Puppis 281 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,433 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 281 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 63660 · HIP 38146
5,433 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
48.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
281 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
48.31×
the Sun's light output
0.64
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.