K-type star · orange
54 Sgr
54 Sgr is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,495 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 241 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7476 · HD 185644 · HIP 96808
4,495 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
35.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
241 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
35.94×
the Sun's light output
0.96
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.