K-type star · orange

HR 5077

HR 5077 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,925 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 6.49G8III

Also catalogued as HD 117261 · HIP 65723

4,925 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
30.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
30.42×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 5077K-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canes Venatici

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.