K-type star · orange

HR 5956

704 lybrightness mag 6.33K4III

Also catalogued as HD 143404 · HIP 78486

3,864 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
704 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 5956K-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
StarHR 580982 ly
StarAlniyat94 ly
StarHR 5929100 ly
StarUridimstar
StarBet Lupstar
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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.