K-type star · orange

HR 3298

HR 3298 is an orange in the constellation Carina 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,917 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 6.11G6/G8III

Also catalogued as HD 70982 · HIP 40926

4,917 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
64.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
64.33×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.