K-type star · orange

HR 5594

HR 5594 is an orange in the constellation Virgo 2,297 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,780 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,247× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,297 years ago.

2,297 lybrightness mag 5.71M2III

Also catalogued as HD 132933 · HIP 73536

3,780 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
2,247× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,297 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
2,247×
the Sun's light output
-3.53
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.