K-type star · orange

HR 5155

HR 5155 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 360 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,698 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 360 years ago.

360 lybrightness mag 5.96K0III

Also catalogued as HD 119250 · HIP 66924

4,698 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
43.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
360 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
43.81×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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HR 5155K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 519815 ly
StarHR 499137 ly
StarHR 494145 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.