K-type star · orange

HR 2563

677 lybrightness mag 6.42K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 50621 · HIP 32918

4,295 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

101× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2/K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

677 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

101×

the Sun's light output

-0.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2563K-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2652 →50 ly apart
HD 49219 →89 ly apart
HR 2771 →93 ly apart
HR 2416 →95 ly apart
HR 2862 →100 ly apart
HR 2348 →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.