K-type star · orange

HR 3459

HR 3459 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 769 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,163 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 681× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 769 years ago.

769 lybrightness mag 4.63G2Ib

Also catalogued as HD 74395 · HIP 42835

5,163 K
temperature
4.63
apparent magnitude
681× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
769 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
681×
the Sun's light output
-2.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 3459K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.