K-type star · orange

HD 5459

HD 5459 is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 648 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,892 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 648 years ago.

648 lybrightness mag 6.44G8IV

Also catalogued as HIP 4475

4,892 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
91.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
648 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
91.37×
the Sun's light output
-0.05
absolute magnitude
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HD 5459K-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 35424 ly
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cassiopeia

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.