K-type star · orange
Zubenelhakrabi
Zubenelhakrabi is an orange in the constellation Libra 163 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,726 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 163 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Lib · HR 5787 · HD 138905 · HIP 76333 · Gliese GJ 3912
4,726 K
temperature
3.91
apparent magnitude
59.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
163 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
59.48×
the Sun's light output
0.41
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.