K-type star · orange

HR 5461

HR 5461 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 1,136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,362 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 319× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,136 years ago.

1,136 lybrightness mag 6.30K0/K1II

Also catalogued as HD 128713 · HIP 71746

4,362 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
319× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,136 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
319×
the Sun's light output
-1.41
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.