K-type star · orange
HR 3673
HR 3673 is an orange in the constellation Carina 473 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,146 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 473 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 79698 · HIP 45219
5,146 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
112× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
473 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
112×
the Sun's light output
-0.27
absolute magnitude
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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.