K-type star · orange

HR 3704

HR 3704 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 452 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,148 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 452 years ago.

452 lybrightness mag 5.79K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HD 80479 · HIP 45743

4,148 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
80.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1/K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
452 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
80.69×
the Sun's light output
0.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 3704K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 363634 ly
StarHD 7861439 ly
StarKappa Hya43 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.