K-type star · orange

HR 5242

HR 5242 is an orange in the constellation Circinus 512 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,642 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 512 years ago.

512 lybrightness mag 6.20K0III

Also catalogued as HD 121557 · HIP 68270

4,642 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
71.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
512 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
71.06×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 5242K-type
Sky regionCircinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.