K-type star · orange
HD 106500
HD 106500 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 512 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,545 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 512 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 59742
4,545 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
53.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
512 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
53.90×
the Sun's light output
0.52
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.