K-type star · orange

HR 5205

HR 5205 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 505 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,999 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 505 years ago.

505 lybrightness mag 6.00K0

Also catalogued as HD 120602 · HIP 67545

4,999 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
83.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
505 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
83.10×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.