K-type star · orange

HR 5444

HR 5444 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 700 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,810 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 242× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 700 years ago.

700 lybrightness mag 5.55K3III

Also catalogued as HD 128068 · HIP 71419

3,810 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
242× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
700 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
242×
the Sun's light output
-1.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 5444K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.