M-type star · red

HR 5726

HR 5726 is a red in the constellation Boötes 1,941 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,613 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,842× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,941 years ago.

1,941 lybrightness mag 5.56K4III

Also catalogued as HD 137071 · HIP 75257

3,613 K
temperature
5.56
apparent magnitude
1,842× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,941 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
1,842×
the Sun's light output
-3.31
absolute magnitude
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HR 5726M-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.