K-type star · orange

HR 3346

HR 3346 is an orange in the constellation Volans 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,813 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 5.95G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 71863 · HIP 41321

4,813 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
45.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.84×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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HR 3346K-type
Sky regionVolansthis direction
StarHR 343231 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Volans

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.