K-type star · orange

HR 3315

HR 3315 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 468 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,830 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 134× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 468 years ago.

468 lybrightness mag 5.32K4/K5III

Also catalogued as HD 71176 · HIP 41260

3,830 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
134× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4/K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
468 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
134×
the Sun's light output
-0.46
absolute magnitude
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HR 3315K-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
Star16 Pup50 ly
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Bright stars in Puppis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.