K-type star · orange

HR 5552

HR 5552 is an orange in the constellation Draco 453 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,002 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 108× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 453 years ago.

453 lybrightness mag 5.48K4III

Also catalogued as HD 131507 · HIP 72664

4,002 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
108× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
453 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
108×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 5552K-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.