K-type star · orange

HR 5508

501 lybrightness mag 5.90K3III

Also catalogued as HD 130055 · HIP 72296

4,058 K

temperature

5.90

apparent magnitude

89.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

501 years

at light speed from Earth

0.70×

as hot as the Sun

89.70×

the Sun's light output

-0.03

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5508K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5543 →14 ly apart
HR 5519 →20 ly apart
HR 5449 →31 ly apart
HR 5579 →37 ly apart
HR 5400 →42 ly apart
HR 5446 →50 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.