M-type star · red
HR 5219
HR 5219 is a red in the constellation Canes Venatici 601 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,634 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 368× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 601 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 120933 · HIP 67665
3,634 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
368× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
601 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
368×
the Sun's light output
-1.57
absolute magnitude
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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.