K-type star · orange
HD 111572
HD 111572 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 544 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,440 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 544 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 62600
4,440 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
60.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
544 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
60.76×
the Sun's light output
0.39
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.