K-type star · orange

HR 3493

HR 3493 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 704 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,154 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 149× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 704 years ago.

704 lybrightness mag 6.09K0

Also catalogued as HD 75140 · HIP 43204

4,154 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
149× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
704 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
149×
the Sun's light output
-0.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 3493K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 345967 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.