K-type star · orange

HR 5943

HR 5943 is an orange in the constellation Lupus 436 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,772 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 157× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 436 years ago.

436 lybrightness mag 4.99G8III

Also catalogued as HD 143009 · HIP 78323

4,772 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
157× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
436 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
157×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
absolute magnitude
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HR 5943K-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
StarEta Lup26 ly
StarGamma Lup38 ly
StarHR 584640 ly
StarUridimstar
StarBeta Lupstar
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Bright stars in Lupus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.