K-type star · orange

HR 5943

436 lybrightness mag 4.99G8III

Also catalogued as HD 143009 · HIP 78323

4,772 K

temperature

4.99

apparent magnitude

157× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

436 years

at light speed from Earth

0.83×

as hot as the Sun

157×

the Sun's light output

-0.64

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5943K-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

Eta Lup →26 ly apart
Gam Lup →38 ly apart
HR 5846 →40 ly apart
HR 5781 →41 ly apart
HR 6080 →43 ly apart
HR 5967 →43 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Gam Lup →mag 2.8
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.