K-type star · orange

HR 2586

HR 2586 is an orange in the constellation Gemini 422 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,056 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 422 years ago.

422 lybrightness mag 5.91G5III

Also catalogued as HD 51000 · HIP 33421

5,056 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
63.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
422 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
63.21×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 2586K-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
StarHR 251215 ly
Star47 Gem63 ly
Star28 Gem68 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarAlhenastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Gemini

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.