K-type star · orange

HR 5768

HR 5768 is an orange in the constellation Draco 703 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,002 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 703 years ago.

703 lybrightness mag 6.32K5

Also catalogued as HD 138524 · HIP 75822

4,002 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
120× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
703 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
120×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.