K-type star · orange

HR 5006

HR 5006 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 258 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,843 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 258 years ago.

258 lybrightness mag 5.10K0III

Also catalogued as HD 115310 · HIP 64803

4,843 K
temperature
5.10
apparent magnitude
49.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
258 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
49.57×
the Sun's light output
0.61
absolute magnitude
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HR 5006K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 494723 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.