K-type star · orange

HR 5078

HR 5078 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 503 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 503 years ago.

503 lybrightness mag 6.42K0III

Also catalogued as HD 117267 · HIP 65796

4,468 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
55.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
503 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
55.92×
the Sun's light output
0.48
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.