G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 5371

HR 5371 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Centaurus 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,296 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 4.76G8/K1 + F/G

Also catalogued as HD 125628 · HIP 70264

5,296 K

temperature

4.76

apparent magnitude

150× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K1 + F/G

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

383 years

at light speed from Earth

0.92×

as hot as the Sun

150×

the Sun's light output

-0.59

absolute magnitude

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HR 5371G-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.