K-type star · orange

HR 3061

HR 3061 is an orange in the constellation Canis Minor 506 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,848 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 506 years ago.

506 lybrightness mag 6.30M5

Also catalogued as HD 64052 · HIP 38406

3,848 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
63.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
506 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
63.21×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 3061K-type
Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction
StarHD 6379814 ly
StarHR 305016 ly
StarHD 6383839 ly
StarGomeisastar
StarGamma CMistar
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Bright stars in Canis Minor
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canis Minor

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.