K-type star · orange
HR 3938
HR 3938 is an orange in the constellation Leo 450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,022 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 450 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 86369 · HIP 48876
4,022 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
62.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
62.98×
the Sun's light output
0.35
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.