K-type star · orange

HR 5251

HR 5251 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 346 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,848 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 346 years ago.

346 lybrightness mag 5.92G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 121853 · HIP 68333

4,848 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
42.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
346 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
42.07×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
HR 5251K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 523013 ly
StarHD 11972729 ly
StarIota Lup34 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.