★ Star HD 85512 | Nearby stars catalogue

Orange star HD 85512 is located 36.8 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class K6Vk:, that has 69 of solar mass. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

HD 85512

Orange star (spectral class K6Vk:)

Mass: 0.69 M Sun

Size: 0.533 R Sun

Temperature: 4530 K | 0.78 T Sun

Age: 5.5 billions years | 1.2 Sun

Luminosity: 0.126 L Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 7.651

1 exoplanet:

HD 85512 b

3.6 M⊕

0.26 AU

0 days

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about HD 85512

      Nearby star HD 85512 can be found in southern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia.  HD 85512 is about 50 % of the size of Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 4530 K (4257 °C), which is about 78 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
CD−42°5678, Gaia DR2 5412947081287925504, GJ 370, Gliese 370, HIC 48331, HIP 48331, LHS 2201, 2MASS J09510700-4330097, Gaia EDR3 5412947081295024896

External sources

Sources

Simbad database (HD 85512)

Gaia database (Gaia EDR3 5412947081295024896)

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