K-type star · orange dwarf
HD 115404
HD 115404 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Coma Berenices 36.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,928 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 36 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 64797 · Gliese Gl 505A
4,928 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
0.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
36 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
0.27×
the Sun's light output
6.27
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.