K-type star · orange

HD 65638

HD 65638 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 490 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,794 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 490 years ago.

490 lybrightness mag 6.46K0III

Also catalogued as HIP 38925

4,794 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
51.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
490 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
51.19×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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HD 65638K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 316213 ly
StarHR 304957 ly
StarHD 6339960 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.