K-type star · orange
HR 344
HR 344 is an orange in the constellation Pisces 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,742 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 88.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 538 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 6966 · HIP 5483
3,742 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
88.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
88.55×
the Sun's light output
-0.02
absolute magnitude
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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.