K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 5515

HR 5515 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Circinus 270 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,500 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 270 years ago.

270 lybrightness mag 6.21K3III

Also catalogued as HD 130227 · HIP 72471

4,500 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
19.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
270 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
19.52×
the Sun's light output
1.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 5515K-type
Sky regionCircinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.