K-type star · orange

HR 505

HR 505 is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,187 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 364 years ago.

364 lybrightness mag 5.70K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 10615 · HIP 7921

4,187 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
56.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
56.81×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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HR 505K-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarHR 73449 ly
StarOmega Phe52 ly
StarHR 35057 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
StarAlpha Hyistar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydrus

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.