K-type star · orange

HR 5981

HR 5981 is an orange in the constellation Draco 811 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,797 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 229× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 811 years ago.

811 lybrightness mag 5.93K5III

Also catalogued as HD 144204 · HIP 78542

3,797 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
229× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
811 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
229×
the Sun's light output
-1.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.