K-type star · orange

HR 3085

HR 3085 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 743 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 301× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 743 years ago.

743 lybrightness mag 5.44K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 64572 · HIP 38497

4,387 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
301× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
743 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
301×
the Sun's light output
-1.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 3085K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.