K-type star · orange

HR 5486

HR 5486 is an orange in the constellation Circinus 336 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,712 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 336 years ago.

336 lybrightness mag 6.10K0III

Also catalogued as HD 129462 · HIP 72097

4,712 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

33.54× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

336 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

33.54×

the Sun's light output

1.04

absolute magnitude

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HR 5486K-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Circinus

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Circinus

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.