K-type star · orange
HR 3269
HR 3269 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 550 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,831 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 95.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 550 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 70013 · HIP 40818
4,831 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
95.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
550 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
95.06×
the Sun's light output
-0.10
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.