K-type star · orange

HR 3062

HR 3062 is an orange in the constellation Carina 1,091 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,480 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 577× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,091 years ago.

1,091 lybrightness mag 5.57G5II

Also catalogued as HD 64067 · HIP 38152

4,480 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
577× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,091 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
577×
the Sun's light output
-2.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 3062K-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.