HD 61248
HD 61248 is a single star in the southern constellation of Carina. It has the Bayer designation Q Carinae, while "HD 61248" is the star's identifier in the "Henry Draper Catalogue". This star has an orange hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.93. Based upon parallax measurements, it is located approximately 402 light years in distance from the Sun. The object is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +63 km/s, having come to within some 1.8 million years ago.

This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K3 III, which means it is no longer undergoing core hydrogen fusion. It has expanded to 30 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 279 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,289 K.
Q523
star
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Q8928
constellation
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Q10470
Carina
CEL
Q105616
Bayer designation
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Q111130
Henry Draper Catalogue
MEDIA
Q124313
apparent visual magnitude
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Q906561
parallax
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Q531
light year
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Q525
Sun
CEL
Q240105
radial velocity
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Q5875
giant star
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Q25377588
stellar classification
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Q60790215
core
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Q13082
hydrogen fusion
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Q48440
Sun's radius
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Q843877
luminosity of the Sun
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Q6372
photosphere
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Q854050
effective temperature
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Q383506
HD 61248
CEL
Q383506
HD 61248
CEL
+4.93^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
4.93
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++63^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
+63
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+1.8^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1.8
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+3^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3
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+30^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
30
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constellation
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