K-type star · orange

HR 3897

HR 3897 is an orange in the constellation Antlia 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,724 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 6.36K0III

Also catalogued as HD 85296 · HIP 48219

4,724 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
58.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
58.18×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 3897K-type
Sky regionAntliathis direction
StarHR 393232 ly
StarHR 397249 ly
StarHR 373753 ly
StarAlpha Antstar
StarEpsilon Antstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Antlia
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Antlia

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.