G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 3881
HR 3881 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Major 59.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,894 K, and it shines at 2.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 84737 · HIP 48113 · Gliese Gl 368
5,894 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
2.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
2.73×
the Sun's light output
3.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.