M-type star · red

5 Ori

5 Ori is a red in the constellation Orion 591 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,605 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 211× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 591 years ago.

591 lybrightness mag 5.33M1III

Also catalogued as HR 1562 · HD 31139 · HIP 22730

3,605 K
temperature
5.33
apparent magnitude
211× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
591 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
211×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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5 OriM-type
Sky regionOrionthis direction
StarHR 161932 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.