K-type star · orange

HR 5104

HR 5104 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 603 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,213 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 603 years ago.

603 lybrightness mag 6.46K2III

Also catalogued as HD 118010 · HIP 66254

4,213 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
77.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
603 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
77.55×
the Sun's light output
0.13
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.