K-type star · orange

HR 5935

HR 5935 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 374 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,728 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 374 years ago.

374 lybrightness mag 6.31K0III

Also catalogued as HD 142889 · HIP 78236

4,728 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
34.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
374 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
34.26×
the Sun's light output
1.01
absolute magnitude
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HR 5935K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.