K-type star · orange
HR 5541
HR 5541 is an orange in the constellation Boötes 210 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,672 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 210 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 131111 · HIP 72582
4,672 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
23.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
210 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
23.40×
the Sun's light output
1.43
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.