K-type star · orange

HR 3471

HR 3471 is an orange in the constellation Carina 325 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,352 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 325 years ago.

325 lybrightness mag 6.26K2III

Also catalogued as HD 74622 · HIP 42717

4,352 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
27.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
325 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
27.11×
the Sun's light output
1.27
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.