K-type star · orange

HR 5955

HR 5955 is an orange in the constellation Apus 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,370 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 5.70K1IIICNII

Also catalogued as HD 143346 · HIP 78868

4,370 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
36.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICNII
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
36.37×
the Sun's light output
0.95
absolute magnitude
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HR 5955K-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHD 14184629 ly
StarHR 579238 ly
StarZeta Aps41 ly
StarParadysstar
StarGamma Apsstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Apus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.