G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Delta CrB
Delta CrB is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Corona Borealis 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,299 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5889 · HD 141714 · HIP 77512
5,299 K
temperature
4.59
apparent magnitude
34.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
34.55×
the Sun's light output
1.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.