K-type star · orange

HR 5180

HR 5180 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 426 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,871 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 426 years ago.

426 lybrightness mag 5.92G9III

Also catalogued as HD 120048 · HIP 67210

4,871 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
63.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
426 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
63.80×
the Sun's light output
0.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 5180K-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 537349 ly
StarHR 507752 ly
StarHR 516160 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canes Venatici

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.