K-type star · orange

HR 3104

HR 3104 is an orange in the constellation Cancer 1,199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,842 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 448× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,199 years ago.

1,199 lybrightness mag 6.05K0

Also catalogued as HD 65257 · HIP 38975

3,842 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
448× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,199 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
448×
the Sun's light output
-1.78
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cancer

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.