K-type star · orange
HR 3261
HR 3261 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 452 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,649 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 452 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 69879 · HIP 40656
4,649 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
44.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
452 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
44.75×
the Sun's light output
0.72
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.