K-type star · orange

HR 3266

HR 3266 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,220 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 412 years ago.

412 lybrightness mag 5.59K2III

Also catalogued as HD 70002 · HIP 40678

4,220 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
80.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
412 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
80.61×
the Sun's light output
0.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 3266K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.