K-type star · orange
HR 5046
HR 5046 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,843 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 394 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 116338 · HIP 65372
4,843 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
32.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
32.51×
the Sun's light output
1.07
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.