K-type star · orange

HD 80461

HD 80461 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 663 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,113 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 663 years ago.

663 lybrightness mag 6.40K0

Also catalogued as HIP 45888

4,113 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
99.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
663 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
99.08×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

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.