K-type star · orange
HD 135430
HD 135430 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 579 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,925 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 579 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 74769
4,925 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
71.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
579 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
71.58×
the Sun's light output
0.21
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.