K-type star · orange

HR 2978

320 lybrightness mag 6.25K0III

Also catalogued as HD 62141 · HIP 37636

4,917 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
26.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
26.57×
the Sun's light output
1.29
absolute magnitude
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HR 2978K-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
Star81 Gem30 ly
StarHR 287733 ly
StarHR 312740 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarAlhenastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Gemini

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.