K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 3772

HR 3772 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Hydra 238 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,323 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 238 years ago.

238 lybrightness mag 5.86K2III

Also catalogued as HD 82232 · HIP 46618

4,323 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
21.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
238 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
21.09×
the Sun's light output
1.54
absolute magnitude
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HR 3772K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star27 Hya31 ly
StarZhang34 ly
StarHR 381040 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
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Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.