K-type star · orange

HR 5241

HR 5241 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 210 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,570 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 210 years ago.

210 lybrightness mag 4.71K4III

Also catalogued as HD 121474 · HIP 68191

4,570 K
temperature
4.71
apparent magnitude
46.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
210 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
46.99×
the Sun's light output
0.67
absolute magnitude
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HR 5241K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 525218 ly
StarHR 513019 ly
StarHR 529529 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.