K-type star · orange

HR 5508

HR 5508 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 501 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,058 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 89.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 501 years ago.

501 lybrightness mag 5.90K3III

Also catalogued as HD 130055 · HIP 72296

4,058 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
89.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
501 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
89.70×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
absolute magnitude
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HR 5508K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.