M-type star · red

HR 3543

HR 3543 is a red in the constellation Chamaeleon 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,656 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 98.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 5.79K5III

Also catalogued as HD 76236 · HIP 43012

3,656 K

temperature

5.79

apparent magnitude

98.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

98.36×

the Sun's light output

-0.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 3543M-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.