K-type star · orange

HR 3776

HR 3776 is an orange in the constellation Carina 503 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,510 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 89.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 503 years ago.

503 lybrightness mag 5.91K1III

Also catalogued as HD 82347 · HIP 46482

4,510 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
89.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
503 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
89.45×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.