K-type star · orange

HR 5512

HR 5512 is an orange in the constellation Boötes 807 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,060 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 260× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 807 years ago.

807 lybrightness mag 5.78M5III

Also catalogued as HD 130144 · HIP 72208

4,060 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
260× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
807 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
260×
the Sun's light output
-1.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.