M-type star · red

HR 3225

HR 3225 is a red in the constellation Puppis 1,699 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,663 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,955× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,699 years ago.

1,699 lybrightness mag 4.44K4III

Also catalogued as HD 68553 · HIP 40091

3,663 K
temperature
4.44
apparent magnitude
3,955× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,699 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
3,955×
the Sun's light output
-4.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 3225M-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 3253120 ly
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Bright stars in Puppis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.