K-type star · orange

HR 5117

HR 5117 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 430 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,681 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 430 years ago.

430 lybrightness mag 6.48K0III

Also catalogued as HD 118319 · HIP 66405

4,681 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
38.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
430 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
38.80×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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HR 5117K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 517422 ly
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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.