G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 5596

HR 5596 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Minor 141 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,703 K, and it shines at 9.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 141 years ago.

141 lybrightness mag 5.63F9V

Also catalogued as HD 133002 · HIP 72573 · Gliese GJ 3876

5,703 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
9.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
141 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
9.14×
the Sun's light output
2.45
absolute magnitude
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HR 5596G-type
Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Minor

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.