K-type star · orange

HR 5065

HR 5065 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 404 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,806 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 404 years ago.

404 lybrightness mag 6.40G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 116873 · HIP 65621

4,806 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
36.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
404 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
36.75×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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HR 5065K-type
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.