K-type star · orange
HD 81896
HD 81896 is an orange in the constellation Carina 698 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,167 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 698 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 46143
4,167 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
698 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.20
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.