K-type star · orange

HR 3115

HR 3115 is an orange in the constellation Cancer 326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,077 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 326 years ago.

326 lybrightness mag 6.05K2

Also catalogued as HD 65522 · HIP 39067

4,077 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
32.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
326 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
32.99×
the Sun's light output
1.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 3115K-type
Sky regionCancerthis direction
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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.