K-type star · orange

HR 5134

HR 5134 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 514 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,800 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 109× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 514 years ago.

514 lybrightness mag 5.74M8III

Also catalogued as HD 118767 · HIP 66666

3,800 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
109× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
514 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
109×
the Sun's light output
-0.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 5134K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 517619 ly
StarHR 507120 ly
StarHR 527855 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.