K-type star · orange

HR 3612

HR 3612 is an orange in the constellation Lynx 817 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,656 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 820× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 817 years ago.

817 lybrightness mag 4.56G8Ib-II

Also catalogued as HD 77912 · HIP 44700

4,656 K
temperature
4.56
apparent magnitude
820× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Ib-II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
817 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
820×
the Sun's light output
-2.44
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.