K-type star · orange

HR 5432

HR 5432 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 559 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,202 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 559 years ago.

559 lybrightness mag 6.39K2III

Also catalogued as HD 127724 · HIP 71333

4,202 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
71.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
559 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
71.25×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 5432K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.