K-type star · orange
HR 5521
HR 5521 is an orange in the constellation Libra 1,013 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,167 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 449× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,013 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 130529 · HIP 72488
4,167 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
449× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,013 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
449×
the Sun's light output
-1.78
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.