K-type star · orange

HR 3509

HR 3509 is an orange in the constellation Lynx 537 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,245 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 537 years ago.

537 lybrightness mag 5.96K0III

Also catalogued as HD 75523 · HIP 43553

4,245 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
97.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
537 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
97.63×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.