K-type star · orange

HR 5289

HR 5289 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 367 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,712 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 367 years ago.

367 lybrightness mag 6.39G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 123151 · HIP 69065

4,712 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
30.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
367 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
30.62×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.