K-type star · orange

HR 5203

HR 5203 is an orange in the constellation Camelopardalis 400 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,760 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 400 years ago.

400 lybrightness mag 5.92G9III

Also catalogued as HD 120565 · HIP 66878

4,760 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
56.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
400 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
56.08×
the Sun's light output
0.48
absolute magnitude
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HR 5203K-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 489212 ly
StarZeta UMi56 ly
StarHR 547957 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.