K-type star · orange
HR 3305
HR 3305 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 894 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,752 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 331× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 894 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 71095 · HIP 41299
3,752 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
331× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
894 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
331×
the Sun's light output
-1.45
absolute magnitude
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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.