K-type star · orange

HR 5118

415 lybrightness mag 5.96G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 118338 · HIP 66427

4,902 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

58.24× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

415 years

at light speed from Earth

0.85×

as hot as the Sun

58.24×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5118K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5121 →17 ly apart
HR 5029 →28 ly apart
Ups1Cen →31 ly apart
Heng →33 ly apart
HR 5065 →33 ly apart
HR 5286 →42 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.