K-type star · orange

HR 5176

HR 5176 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 498 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,032 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 133× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 498 years ago.

498 lybrightness mag 5.46K2III

Also catalogued as HD 119971 · HIP 67304

4,032 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
133× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
498 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
133×
the Sun's light output
-0.46
absolute magnitude
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HR 5176K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 513419 ly
StarHR 507128 ly
StarHR 527847 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.