K-type star · orange

HR 5479

HR 5479 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Minor 450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,095 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 450 years ago.

450 lybrightness mag 6.27K3III

Also catalogued as HD 129245 · HIP 71196

4,095 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
51.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
51.43×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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HR 5479K-type
Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

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.