K-type star · orange

HR 5636

HR 5636 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,087 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.

429 lybrightness mag 5.98G6III

Also catalogued as HD 134255 · HIP 74224

5,087 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
60.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
60.98×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 5636K-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
StarHR 573630 ly
StarUpsilon Lup31 ly
StarHR 558737 ly
StarUridimstar
StarBeta Lupstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.