K-type star · orange

HR 2945

568 lybrightness mag 6.38K4III

Also catalogued as HD 61453 · HIP 37128

3,836 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

74.13× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

568 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

74.13×

the Sun's light output

0.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2945K-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2963 →5.7 ly apart
HR 2961 →13 ly apart
HD 63291 →18 ly apart
HR 2981 →26 ly apart
HR 3022 →28 ly apart
HR 2875 →35 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.