K-type star · orange
HR 5617
HR 5617 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,943 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 338 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 133631 · HIP 74006
4,943 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
45.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
45.92×
the Sun's light output
0.69
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.