K-type star · orange

HR 3282

HR 3282 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 1,007 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,920 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 970× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,007 years ago.

1,007 lybrightness mag 4.83K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 70555 · HIP 40945

3,920 K
temperature
4.83
apparent magnitude
970× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,007 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
970×
the Sun's light output
-2.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 3282K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.