K-type star · orange

HR 5178

HR 5178 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 609 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,921 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 608 years ago.

609 lybrightness mag 6.04K5III

Also catalogued as HD 120033 · HIP 67271

3,921 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
116× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
608 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
116×
the Sun's light output
-0.31
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.