K-type star · orange dwarf
HR 3424
HR 3424 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cancer 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,559 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 332 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 73599 · HIP 42462
4,559 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
23.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
23.59×
the Sun's light output
1.42
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.