K-type star · orange
HR 5118
HR 5118 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 415 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,902 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 415 years ago.
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
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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.