K-type star · orange

HR 3068

HR 3068 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 306 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,851 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 306 years ago.

306 lybrightness mag 5.62K0III

Also catalogued as HD 64152 · HIP 38375

4,851 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
43.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
306 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
43.21×
the Sun's light output
0.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 3068K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 304331 ly
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Bright stars in Puppis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.