K-type star · orange

HR 5172

263 lybrightness mag 4.64G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 119834 · HIP 67234

4,853 K

temperature

4.64

apparent magnitude

78.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

263 years

at light speed from Earth

0.84×

as hot as the Sun

78.63×

the Sun's light output

0.11

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5172K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5207 →7.8 ly apart
HR 5141 →17 ly apart
HR 4996 →37 ly apart
HR 5426 →37 ly apart
HR 5495 →43 ly apart
HD 123247 →48 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To 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.