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Lupus-TR-3
Sign in to saveLupus-TR-3 is a star located in the southern constellation Lupus. It has an apparent magnitude of 17.4, making it visible only in power telescopes. Its distance is not well known, but it is estimated to be roughly 2,000 parsecs away from the Solar System.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- K1V
- Coordinates
- RA 232.5778° · Dec -42.9782°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Child body
- Lupus-TR-3b
- Distance from Earth
- 2
- Radius
- 0.82
- Mass
- 0.87
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR3 6002207729507530880
- apparent magnitude
- 17.880415
- spectral class
- K1V
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.798
- declination component of proper motion
- -7.197
- right ascension
- 232.57777992159998
- declination
- -42.97823999787
- effective temperature
- 5000
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lupus-TR-3 is a star located in the southern constellation Lupus. It has an apparent magnitude of 17.4, making it visible only in power telescopes. Its distance is not well known, but it is estimated to be roughly 2,000 parsecs away from the Solar System.
==Physical characteristics== Lupus-TR-3 has a stellar classification of K1 V, indicating that it is an ordinary K-type main-sequence star. It has 87% the mass of the Sun and 82% the radius of the Sun. It radiates at an effective temperature of .
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