K-type star · orange

HR 3281

HR 3281 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 311 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,626 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 311 years ago.

311 lybrightness mag 5.71K0III

Also catalogued as HD 70523 · HIP 40990

4,626 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
41.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
311 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
41.08×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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HR 3281K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 336739 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.