K-type star · orange

HR 3597

HR 3597 is an orange in the constellation Pyxis 353 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,436 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 353 years ago.

353 lybrightness mag 6.20K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 77361 · HIP 44290

4,436 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
33.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
353 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
33.70×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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HR 3597K-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 348326 ly
StarHR 351630 ly
StarHR 363747 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.