K-type star · orange

HR 3918

HR 3918 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 360 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,399 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 360 years ago.

360 lybrightness mag 5.86K3III:

Also catalogued as HD 85841 · HIP 48893

4,399 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

48.17× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

360 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

48.17×

the Sun's light output

0.64

absolute magnitude

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HR 3918K-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.