K-type star · orange
5 Lib
5 Lib is an orange in the constellation Libra 1,450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,321 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 505× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,450 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5503 · HD 129978 · HIP 72194
4,321 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
505× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
505×
the Sun's light output
-1.91
absolute magnitude
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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.