K-type star · orange

HR 3276

HR 3276 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 718 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,651 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 718 years ago.

718 lybrightness mag 6.12G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 70302 · HIP 40876

4,651 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
718 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.