K-type star · orange

HR 5080

HR 5080 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 405 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,091 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 405 years ago.

405 lybrightness mag 6.40M6/M7e

Also catalogued as HD 117287 · HIP 65835

4,091 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
37.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M6/M7e
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
405 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
37.02×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.