K-type star · orange

HR 5089

HR 5089 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 906 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,336 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,850× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 906 years ago.

906 lybrightness mag 3.90G8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 117440 · HIP 65936

4,336 K
temperature
3.90
apparent magnitude
1,850× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
906 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
1,850×
the Sun's light output
-3.32
absolute magnitude
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HR 5089K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.