K-type star · orange
HR 5896
HR 5896 is an orange in the constellation Libra 558 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,719 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 558 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 141853 · HIP 77689
4,719 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
84.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
558 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
84.57×
the Sun's light output
0.03
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.