K-type star · orange

HR 3317

HR 3317 is an orange in the constellation Puppis 703 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,243 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 703 years ago.

703 lybrightness mag 6.44K1III

Also catalogued as HD 71231 · HIP 41306

4,243 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
703 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.