K-type star · orange

HR 5218

HR 5218 is an orange in the constellation Circinus 943 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,809 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 368× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 943 years ago.

943 lybrightness mag 5.74K2III

Also catalogued as HD 120913 · HIP 67942

3,809 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
368× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
943 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
368×
the Sun's light output
-1.56
absolute magnitude
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HR 5218K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Circinus

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.