K-type star · orange

HR 5265

HR 5265 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 440 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,067 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 103× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 440 years ago.

440 lybrightness mag 5.47K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 122430 · HIP 68581

4,067 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
103× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
440 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
103×
the Sun's light output
-0.18
absolute magnitude
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HR 5265K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 539048 ly
StarHR 519761 ly
Star52 Hya64 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
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Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.