K-type star · orange

HR 5137

HR 5137 is an orange in the constellation Boötes 541 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,276 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 541 years ago.

541 lybrightness mag 6.46K3III

Also catalogued as HD 118839 · HIP 66594

4,276 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
62.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
541 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
62.40×
the Sun's light output
0.36
absolute magnitude
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HR 5137K-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Boötes

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.