G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 5041
HR 5041 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus 260 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,215 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 260 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 116243 · HIP 65387
5,215 K
temperature
4.52
apparent magnitude
86.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
260 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
86.30×
the Sun's light output
0.01
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.