K-type star · orange

HR 5143

HR 5143 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 540 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,833 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 540 years ago.

540 lybrightness mag 6.21G5II:

Also catalogued as HD 119035 · HIP 66690

4,833 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
78.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
540 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
78.34×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canes Venatici

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.