K-type star · orange
HD 75306
HD 75306 is an orange in the constellation Pyxis 697 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,010 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 108× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 697 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 43215
4,010 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
108× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
697 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
108×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
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.