K-type star · orange

HR 5549

HR 5549 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 1,045 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,904 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 409× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,045 years ago.

1,045 lybrightness mag 5.85K2III

Also catalogued as HD 131432 · HIP 72959

3,904 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
409× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,045 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
409×
the Sun's light output
-1.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 5549K-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 5615120 ly
StarHR 5474130 ly
StarHR 5658150 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.