K-type star · orange

HR 3408

HR 3408 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 522 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,375 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 522 years ago.

522 lybrightness mag 5.91K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 73171 · HIP 42452

4,375 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

96.47× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

522 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

96.47×

the Sun's light output

-0.11

absolute magnitude

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HR 3408K-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.