G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 5
HR 5 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cassiopeia 70.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,647 K, and it shines at 1.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 70 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 123 · HIP 518 · Gliese Gl 4.1A
5,647 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
1.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
70 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
1.63×
the Sun's light output
4.32
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.