K-type star · orange
HR 3801
HR 3801 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 408 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,806 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 408 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 82638 · HIP 46869
4,806 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
48.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
408 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
48.62×
the Sun's light output
0.63
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.