K-type star · orange

HR 5188

HR 5188 is an orange in the constellation Chamaeleon 801 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,932 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 219× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 801 years ago.

801 lybrightness mag 5.95K2/K3III:p

Also catalogued as HD 120213 · HIP 68009

3,932 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
219× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III:p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
801 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
219×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 5188K-type
Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction
StarHR 524060 ly
StarHR 470989 ly
StarHD 12989990 ly
StarAlpha Chastar
StarGamma Chastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Chamaeleon
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.