K-type star · orange

HR 5172

HR 5172 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 263 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,853 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 263 years ago.

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
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HR 5172K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 52077.8 ly
StarHR 514117 ly
StarHR 499637 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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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.