K-type star · orange

HR 5950

399 lybrightness mag 6.30K0

Also catalogued as HD 143209 · HIP 78153

4,493 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
39.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
399 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
39.41×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
HR 5950K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
Star53Nu 2Boo36 ly
StarHunor40 ly
Star6Ups Her51 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.