K-type star · orange

HR 5878

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5878K-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5981 →84 ly apart
HR 5995 →110 ly apart
HR 6086 →160 ly apart
HR 5452 →190 ly apart
HR 5768 →200 ly apart
18 Dra →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

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.