K-type star · orange
HR 5122
HR 5122 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,487 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 517 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 118384 · HIP 66521
4,487 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
59.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
517 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
59.70×
the Sun's light output
0.41
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.