K-type star · orange

HR 5456

HR 5456 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 722 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,915 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 164× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 722 years ago.

722 lybrightness mag 6.04K3III

Also catalogued as HD 128488 · HIP 71581

3,915 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
164× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
722 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
164×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 5456K-type
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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.