K-type star · orange

HR 3907

HR 3907 is an orange in the constellation Sextans 454 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,907 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 454 years ago.

454 lybrightness mag 6.34G9III

Also catalogued as HD 85505 · HIP 48413

4,907 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
49.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
454 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
49.02×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 3907K-type
Sky regionSextansthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sextans

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.