K-type star · orange
HR 5495
HR 5495 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 260 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,781 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 260 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 129893 · HIP 72290
4,781 K
temperature
5.22
apparent magnitude
45.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
260 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.16×
the Sun's light output
0.71
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.