K-type star · orange

HR 3127

HR 3127 is an orange in the constellation Cancer 287 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,389 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 287 years ago.

287 lybrightness mag 6.34K1III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 65757 · HIP 39194

4,389 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
19.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
287 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
19.61×
the Sun's light output
1.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 3127K-type
Sky regionCancerthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.