K-type star · orange

HR 5092

HR 5092 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,670 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 319 years ago.

319 lybrightness mag 6.14K1III

Also catalogued as HD 117597 · HIP 66019

4,670 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
29.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
319 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
29.24×
the Sun's light output
1.19
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.