K-type star · orange

HR 3554

HR 3554 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,074 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 446 years ago.

446 lybrightness mag 5.75K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 76376 · HIP 43798

4,074 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
81.66× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
81.66×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.