K-type star · orange

HR 5536

HR 5536 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 457 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,955 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 457 years ago.

457 lybrightness mag 6.18K3III

Also catalogued as HD 130970 · HIP 72629

3,955 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
57.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
457 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
57.81×
the Sun's light output
0.45
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.