K-type star · orange
HR 5847
HR 5847 is an orange in the constellation Libra 400 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,463 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 400 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 140301 · HIP 77007
4,463 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
39.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
400 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
39.52×
the Sun's light output
0.86
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.