K-type star · orange

HR 3054

HR 3054 is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,455 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 402 years ago.

402 lybrightness mag 6.16K0

Also catalogued as HD 63894 · HIP 38307

4,455 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
45.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
402 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
45.50×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Monoceros

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.