K-type star · orange

HR 5878

HR 5878 is an orange in the constellation Draco 879 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,944 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 266× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 879 years ago.

879 lybrightness mag 5.94K3III

Also catalogued as HD 141472 · HIP 77272

3,944 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
266× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
879 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
266×
the Sun's light output
-1.21
absolute magnitude
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HR 5878K-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.