K-type star · orange dwarf
HR 3707
HR 3707 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cancer 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,521 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 293 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 80546 · HIP 45896
4,521 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
24.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
24.19×
the Sun's light output
1.39
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.