K-type star · orange
HD 99145
HD 99145 is an orange in the constellation Centaurus 617 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,787 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 617 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 55645
3,787 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
78.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
617 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
78.20×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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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.