K-type star · orange

HR 4050

HR 4050 is an orange in the constellation Carina 658 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,733 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,560× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 658 years ago.

658 lybrightness mag 3.39K3II

Also catalogued as HD 89388 · HIP 50371

3,733 K

temperature

3.39

apparent magnitude

1,560× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

658 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

1,560×

the Sun's light output

-3.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 4050K-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Carina

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.