K-type star · orange
Pi² Dor
Pi² Dor is an orange in the constellation Dorado 270 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,813 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 270 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2377 · HD 46116 · HIP 30565
4,813 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
42.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
270 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
42.46×
the Sun's light output
0.78
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.