K-type star · orange

HR 5344

HR 5344 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 410 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,779 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 410 years ago.

410 lybrightness mag 6.22K0III

Also catalogued as HD 124990 · HIP 69792

4,779 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
44.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
410 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
44.67×
the Sun's light output
0.72
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.