K-type star · orange

HR 5424

HR 5424 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 694 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,916 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 694 years ago.

694 lybrightness mag 6.01K4III

Also catalogued as HD 127337 · HIP 70949

3,916 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
694 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.