M-type star · red

HR 5924

HR 5924 is a red in the constellation Serpens 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,666 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 141× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.

510 lybrightness mag 5.45M0III

Also catalogued as HD 142574 · HIP 77902

3,666 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
141× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
141×
the Sun's light output
-0.52
absolute magnitude
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HR 5924M-type
Sky regionSerpensthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.