K-type star · orange

HR 3512

HR 3512 is an orange in the constellation Pyxis 224 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,062 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 224 years ago.

224 lybrightness mag 5.19G8III

Also catalogued as HD 75605 · HIP 43352

5,062 K
temperature
5.19
apparent magnitude
34.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
224 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
34.45×
the Sun's light output
1.01
absolute magnitude
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HR 3512K-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 339713 ly
StarEpsilon Pyx22 ly
StarGamma Pyx25 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pyxis

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.