K-type star · orange

HR 3632

HR 3632 is an orange in the constellation Carina 541 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,015 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 541 years ago.

541 lybrightness mag 6.37K3III

Also catalogued as HD 78632 · HIP 44665

4,015 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
67.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
541 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
67.80×
the Sun's light output
0.27
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.