G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 5520
HR 5520 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Apus 329 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,221 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 329 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 130458 · HIP 72833
5,221 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
51.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
329 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
51.62×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.