K-type star · orange

HR 5658

HR 5658 is an orange in the constellation Libra 997 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,432 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 376× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 997 years ago.

997 lybrightness mag 5.84G8/K0II

Also catalogued as HD 135051 · HIP 74539

4,432 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
376× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
997 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
376×
the Sun's light output
-1.59
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.