K-type star · orange

HR 3092

HR 3092 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 648 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,734 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 648 years ago.

648 lybrightness mag 6.14K4III

Also catalogued as HD 64876 · HIP 38635

3,734 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
120× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
648 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
120×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.