K-type star · orange

HR 3280

HR 3280 is an orange in the constellation Volans 297 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,453 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 297 years ago.

297 lybrightness mag 5.06K1III

Also catalogued as HD 70514 · HIP 40680

4,453 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
68.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
297 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
68.36×
the Sun's light output
0.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 3280K-type
Sky regionVolansthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Volans

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.