K-type star · orange

HR 5969

HR 5969 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,243 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 208 years ago.

208 lybrightness mag 4.96K3III

Also catalogued as HD 143787 · HIP 78650

4,243 K
temperature
4.96
apparent magnitude
36.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
208 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
36.61×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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HR 5969K-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.