K-type star · orange

HR 5678

HR 5678 is an orange in the constellation Libra 472 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,022 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 472 years ago.

472 lybrightness mag 5.52K2III

Also catalogued as HD 135534 · HIP 74732

4,022 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
472 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
113×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
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.