K-type star · orange

HR 5428

HR 5428 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,672 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 330 years ago.

330 lybrightness mag 6.07K0III

Also catalogued as HD 127624 · HIP 71154

4,672 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
33.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
33.30×
the Sun's light output
1.04
absolute magnitude
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HR 5428K-type
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.