K-type star · orange

HR 5850

HR 5850 is an orange in the constellation Serpens 565 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,070 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 565 years ago.

565 lybrightness mag 6.48G5III

Also catalogued as HD 140438 · HIP 76985

5,070 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
66.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
565 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
66.93×
the Sun's light output
0.29
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.