K-type star · orange

HR 5950

HR 5950 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 399 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,493 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 399 years ago.

399 lybrightness mag 6.30K0

Also catalogued as HD 143209 · HIP 78153

4,493 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
39.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
399 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
39.41×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 5950K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.