K-type star · orange
HR 5493
HR 5493 is an orange in the constellation Boötes 684 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,954 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 197× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 684 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 129846 · HIP 72012
3,954 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
197× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
684 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
197×
the Sun's light output
-0.89
absolute magnitude
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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.