G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 512
HR 512 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Octans 89.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,890 K, and it shines at 2.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 89 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 10800 · HIP 7601 · Gliese Gl 67.1
5,890 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
2.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
89 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
2.90×
the Sun's light output
3.69
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.