K-type star · orange

HR 5122

517 lybrightness mag 6.41K1III

Also catalogued as HD 118384 · HIP 66521

4,487 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

59.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

517 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

59.70×

the Sun's light output

0.41

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5122K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5266 →47 ly apart
HR 5278 →48 ly apart
HR 4944 →54 ly apart
HR 5316 →57 ly apart
HR 5071 →66 ly apart
HR 5242 →70 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

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.