K-type star · orange

HR 5929

HR 5929 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 792 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,526 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 250× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 792 years ago.

792 lybrightness mag 5.78K0/K1III+..

Also catalogued as HD 142691 · HIP 78142

4,526 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

250× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0/K1III+..

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

792 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

250×

the Sun's light output

-1.15

absolute magnitude

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HR 5929K-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

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Bright stars in Lupus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.