K-type star · orange

HR 5314

HR 5314 is an orange in the constellation Hydra 530 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,578 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 530 years ago.

530 lybrightness mag 6.23K0III

Also catalogued as HD 124281 · HIP 69458

4,578 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
74.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
530 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
74.20×
the Sun's light output
0.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 5314K-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 532433 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.