M-type star · red

HR 5301

HR 5301 is a red in the constellation Virgo 461 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,536 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 185× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 461 years ago.

461 lybrightness mag 4.93M1III

Also catalogued as HD 123934 · HIP 69269

3,536 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
185× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
461 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
185×
the Sun's light output
-0.82
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.