K-type star · orange
HD 72752
HD 72752 is an orange in the constellation Vela 755 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,134 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 755 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 41905
4,134 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
755 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
118×
the Sun's light output
-0.33
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.