K-type star · orange

HR 3953

HR 3953 is an orange in the constellation Vela 473 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,794 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 473 years ago.

473 lybrightness mag 6.50K0III

Also catalogued as HD 87030 · HIP 49052

4,794 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
46.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
473 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
46.09×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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HR 3953K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

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.